Sadiq Khan will be London’s new mayor
By BAGEHOTTHE official declaration has not yet taken place, but already it is arithmetically certain that Sadiq Khan has won London’s election and will...
Low expectations cloud Labour’s abysmal local-elections performance
By BagehotYESTERDAY Theo Bertram, an adviser in Downing Street under New Labour, blogged on the art of spinning local-election results. He pointed to the...
Leicester City’s success suggests globalisation is strengthening, not killing, English football
By BAGEHOT / J.A.A guest-post from one of my predecessors as Bagehot:WHEN, two years ago, the bones of Richard III, a crippled Medieval monarch,...
Guest post: Why comparing Israel to the Nazis is always anti-Semitic
By BAGEHOT / A.M.A guest-post from one of my predecessors as Bagehot:THE borders between criticism of Israel, anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism are, like Israel’s borders,...
By tolerating Jeremy Corbyn, Labour’s moderates are complicit in their party’s shame
By BagehotANOTHER day, another figure in the Labour Party facing allegations of anti-Semitism. Today it is Ken Livingstone, who went on the BBC to...
