Bagehot

Our columnist on British politics


Britain

What now for Britain’s right-wing parties?

The Conservatives, Reform UK and the regressive dilemma 

Britain

A weekend with Gareth Southgate and friends

England football fans abroad: soft boys playing at being hard men

Britain

Britain’s Conservative Party faces up to its own mortality

Dulce et decorum est pro parte mori

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Why the next Westminster scandal is already here

In British politics scandals are not exposed. They are simply noticed

Britain

Britain’s Conservatives are losing as they governed. Meekly

UwU Conservativism, and the end of smol government 

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What separates Tony Blair’s Labour from the party today?

The approach to globalisation is the clearest dividing-line of all

Britain

Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer fight for a poundshop presidency 

The general election reveals the absurdities of Britain’s presidential turn

Britain

The British election is becoming an episode of mob justice 

A punishment beating is on the cards for the Conservatives  

Britain

Rishi Sunak’s snap election is odd and illogical—much like him

For a man who says he has a plan, the prime minister acts in an impulsive way

Britain

The narcissism of minor differences, Labour Party edition  

On the centre-left the small divisions can be the most toxic

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Jeremy Clarkson, patron saint of the Great British bore

He who speaks for the bore speaks for Britain 

Britain

Britain’s Reform UK party does not exist

But it is all the more powerful as a result

Britain

Local British politics is a mix of the good, the bad and the mad

Devolution is messier—and weirder—than people think

Britain

Bootlicking: a guide to pre-election British politics

Labour is not yet in power. But the honeymoon has already begun 

Britain

Sadiq Khan’s London offers a taste of Starmer’s Britain 

How not to run a city or a country

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