Innovation

WE USE the phrase “death-trap” all too lightly. But a death-trap is exactly what the 24-storey Grenfell Tower in West...

POLITICAL scientists are often sniffy about campaigns. They think that campaigns have at best a minimal impact on election results...

BRITISH election campaigns are usually carefully choreographed affairs. They are short and sharp: just a few weeks of formal campaigning...

I HEREBY predict that one of the great themes of British politics in the next few years will be “one-nation...

TO BIRMINGHAM to look at the state of the race to become mayor of the West Midlands (to be decided...

THE deformation professionnelle of the British establishment is its habit of rewarding failure: mess things up, get a promotion. The...

DAMN her eyes! I took over as Bagehot only the other day, on April Fools’ Day, having not focused on...

LO, BREXIT is under way. And I have effected my own exit: having penned my last Bagehot column I now...

IT IS a measure of Labour’s sorry state these days that losing just one of two seats that it has...

ON TUESDAY the clerk of the House of Commons warned that the proposed repairs to the Houses of Parliament would...