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Britain's House of Lords: House repairs
May 11th 2012, 8:43 from Bagehot's notebook
What lies beneath a seemingly abstruse row about House of Lords reform(9)
Two years of the coalition: I never promised you a rose garden
May 10th 2012, 3:06 from Print edition
Two big successes, two big failures, and much of the rest hanging in the balance: the government’s reforms have a patchy record(6)
Libel reform: Tourists go home
May 10th 2012, 3:06 from Print edition
Free-speech campaigners cheer a move to reform libel laws(2)
Bagehot: House repairs
May 10th 2012, 3:06 from Print edition
Beneath high-flown talk of Lords reform lies a grubby power struggle(1)
Rupert Murdoch and the British parliament: If Tom Watson really believes Rupert Murdoch is a menace, why didn't he work for a cross-party report condemning him?
May 1st 2012, 3:05 from Bagehot's notebook
Labour MPs choose partisan point-scoring over a condemnation of wrongdoing by the Murdoch media empire(49)
Britain’s aircraft-carriers: Reverse thrust
Apr 19th 2012, 3:09 from Print edition
The prime minister is set to announce another embarrassing U-turn(48)
Charities, tax and politics: One hand giveth
Apr 19th 2012, 3:09 from Print edition
Why the dispute over tax and charity is so politically toxic(4)
Civil-service reform: Learning mandarin
Apr 19th 2012, 3:09 from Print edition
Overhauling Whitehall is key to the government’s entire reform programme. Progress has been quick, but opposition is building(10)
Elitism and English universities: University challenged
Apr 16th 2012, 11:14 from Blighty
Efforts to get students from poor neighbourhoods into competitive colleges(22)
Politics this week
Mar 22nd 2012, 4:10 from Print edition(4)
Britain's 2012 Budget: So what happened to Budget purdah?
Mar 21st 2012, 9:46 from Bagehot's notebook
The most-leaked secret in Whitehall history(2)
The budget and the 50p tax rate: Inside the mind of George Osborne
Mar 20th 2012, 10:38 from Blighty (23)
Press regulation: Guarding the guardians
Feb 2nd 2012, 4:03 from Print edition
The phone-hacking scandal has led to calls for stricter press regulation. Publishers are scrambling for a solution before one is imposed on them(5)
Politics this week
Feb 2nd 2012, 4:03 from Print edition(7)
Universities: Pile them high
Feb 2nd 2012, 4:03 from Print edition
Steep tuition fees are not deterring most students. But the attempt to create a market in higher education is off track(13)
High-speed rail: Train reaction
Jan 12th 2012, 4:04 from Print edition
Putting a new train line underground will not bury opposition to it(11)
Sin taxes: The high cost of virtue
Dec 28th 2011, 4:03 from Print edition
Britons are cutting back on many vices. Unfortunately, abstinence makes the Treasury grow poorer(10)
Markets: Good news bulls
Dec 1st 2011, 9:59 from Buttonwood's notebook
Help for the banks, China easing and good US data; what's not to like?(7)
Fuel duty: Road rage
Nov 17th 2011, 11:32 from Print edition
High petrol prices hurt, but will not throttle the economy(2)
International: Next year, don’t
Nov 8th 2011, 5:13 from Print edition
The law may sometimes save an ass(3)
The Conservative Party and direct democracy: Trusting the people, when MPs are distrusted
Oct 27th 2011, 5:12 from Bagehot's notebook
Britain slides, without much of a formal debate, away from representative democracy(6)
Politics this week
Oct 27th 2011, 10:18 from Print edition(6)
Criminal justice: Women behaving badly
Oct 27th 2011, 9:18 from Print edition
Calls to reform the sentencing of women are growing louder(15)
Bagehot: One man, many votes
Oct 27th 2011, 8:03 from Print edition
The Tories’ confused attitude to direct democracy(4)
David Cameron and the Conservative right: When the Conservative right is wrong-headed
Oct 20th 2011, 5:28 from Bagehot's notebook
Why Tory MPs want to send David Cameron into the fast-moving EU crisis with his hands tied(15)