Americans are doing a good job of misunderstanding Britain
By BAGEHOT A RESTAURANT critic for the New York Times informs us that, on returning to London after a ten-year absence, he was astonished to discover that the local restaurants hav
Labour is no longer the party of the traditional working class
By BAGEHOT ON JULY 3RD Jeremy Corbyn told Unite, Britain’s biggest trade union, that “Labour is back as the political voice of the working class”. This would be nice if it we
Some thoughts on the crisis of liberalism—and how to fix it
By BAGEHOT BREXIT is such an all-consuming process for the British—at once a drama, a muddle and a mess—that it is easy to forget that it is part of something bigger: a crisis
China celebrates lunar new year as Covid infections hit 80 per cent
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The rebirth of Notre-Dame: from ashes of lead to ‘symbol of hope’
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Pandemic-hit Rolls-Royce hopes for clearer skies as new boss takes helm
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RSK’s Alan Ryder on how to manage rapid expansion
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Reed Hastings stepped down and took the sheen off Netflix’s surprisingly solid subscriber numbers
Netflix’s co-founder and chief stole the show from a surprise uptick in subscriptions. The streaming giant posted bumper earnings yesterday (Jan. 19), adding a net 7.7 million ne
Genesis is the latest piece of the FTX domino to fall
Genesis Global Trading has filed for bankruptcy after months of uncertainty over the state of its assets. The crypto lending company was a major FTX client that unraveled in the af
Tsitsi Masiyiwa is putting her millions into reducing Africa’s gender gap
According to the Global Gender Gap Report 2022, it will take another 132 years to close the gender gap. This means that no one living today is likely to see a time when men and wom