Bagehot
Our columnist offers astute commentary and analysis on British politics, policies, and societal trends
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Britain’s last imperialists
The core of the British state still believes it can lead by example
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How British-Nigerians quietly made their way to the top
A story of modern migration has had extraordinary results
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Inside the chaos machine of British politics
The Labour Party promises calm. But the world it inhabits is built for chaos
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The bungee-jumping, sandal-clad right-wingers of British politics
If the Liberal Democrats want to replace the Conservatives, they must move further right on the economy
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Why are Remainers so weak in post-Brexit Britain?
The European cause is hugely popular. Its proponents are strangely ineffective
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British voters care less about tax rises than politicians think
So if you’re going to increase a tax, make it a big one
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Why Britain’s Labour government enjoys hippy-punching
And why that risks being more of a fetish than a strategy
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The new front line of British politics is just lovely
From the “left-behind” to the “well-ahead”
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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