Bagehot
Our columnist offers astute commentary and analysis on British politics, policies, and societal trends
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British boomers are losing out for the first time
A generation used to having everything its own way is not happy
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The Conservative Party’s Oppenheimer syndrome
You weaken the checks on the British state. Then your opponents take power
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What the softening of the Sun says about Britain
Two-speed liberalisation remakes a tabloid newspaper
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Speaker Hoyle and the strange politics of human resources
A concern with MPs’ well-being scuppers a crucial debate
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Sir Keir Starmer: bureaucrat first, politician second
A biography of the Labour leader reveals a reformer ill at ease in politics
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The former prime minister who fascinates the Labour Party
Starmerites are studying a neglected former leader
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Britain’s Labour Party is backed by a pro-growth coalition
Its young electoral base offers opportunities to fix a sclerotic economy
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Keir Starmer, Reform UK and Britain’s populist paradox
A country ripe for the radical right is on course to elect a centrist who wants a quieter politics
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What Britain’s Labour Party thinks of Europe
Rachel Reeves is heir to a long Labour history of ambivalence towards the EU