Bagehot
Our columnist on British politics
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What now for Britain’s right-wing parties?
The Conservatives, Reform UK and the regressive dilemma
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A weekend with Gareth Southgate and friends
England football fans abroad: soft boys playing at being hard men
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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
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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
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Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer fight for a poundshop presidency
The general election reveals the absurdities of Britain’s presidential turn
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The British election is becoming an episode of mob justice
A punishment beating is on the cards for the Conservatives
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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
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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
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Local British politics is a mix of the good, the bad and the mad
Devolution is messier—and weirder—than people think
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Bootlicking: a guide to pre-election British politics
Labour is not yet in power. But the honeymoon has already begun
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