Damian Green’s exit gives Theresa May a problem—and an opportunity
By BAGEHOT AT THE last prime minister’s questions of the year, on December 20th, Damian Green loyally sat on Theresa May’s right and bellowed his support at all the right momen
A strange disease has taken hold of British politics
By BAGEHOT | MANCHESTER BRITAIN is suffering from a very un-British affliction at the moment: millenarianism. A country that has always prided itself on its support for common sens
The Tory conference reflects the dismal state of the party
By BAGEHOT | MANCHESTER IF I had to sum up the Labour Party conference in Brighton last week in a single word, it would be “frightening”. A major British political party has be
An evening with Momentum at the Labour Party conference
By BAGEHOT | BRIGHTON I VENTURED into Momentum’s “A World Transformed” jamboree—a sort of parallel conference running alongside the main Labour Party conference—with some
Germany to send Leopard tanks after rethink by Scholz
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Glitch at NYSE briefly halts trading in dozens of blue-chip stocks
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US sues Google over its digital ad ‘dominance’
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Murdoch scraps merger of Fox and News Corp after investor pushback
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From Iraqi oilfields to Tory HQ: how Nadhim Zahawi mixed business and politics
Nadhim Zahawi, chair of the UK Conservative party, is due to publish his memoirs later this year. The title, A Boy from Baghdad: My Journey from Waziriyah to Westminster, reflects