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Posts Tagged: Walter Bagehot

Andrew Gimson’s PMQs sketch: Johnson will not be goaded into admitting his view of taking the knee may have changed

The PM set out to demonstrate that he is every bit as fervent an anti-racist as the Leader of the Opposition.

By Andrew Gimson | 14 July 2021

Jacob Rees-Mogg: The Duke of Edinburgh – the country’s first vassal, Her Majesty’s liege man

Bagehot’s purely dignified role for the monarchy only works if tireless duty and service are at its heart – as in this case.

By Jacob Rees-Mogg MP | 12 April 2021

How Johnson thinks. One can’t “let in daylight upon magic”.

The Prime Minister seems to be mulling some school re-openings pre-Easter. But how long will it last and who can really be sure?

By Paul Goodman | 26 January 2021 | 50 comments

We think we know Churchill, but are constantly surprised by him

Andrew Roberts manages to bring the great man before us in all his variousness in just under a thousand pages.

By Andrew Gimson | 3 November 2018 | 15 comments

The poverty of May’s language is an insult to the public

But Corbyn is so third-rate he helps to keep her in power, and both of them epitomise a wider decline in political speech.

By Andrew Gimson | 14 August 2018 | 367 comments

Profile: The Prince of Wales. Will he reign well?

It is an extremely tough task to prepare to be a constitutional monarch, or indeed to take on the actual role.

By Andrew Gimson | 31 May 2018 | 115 comments

Profile: The Prime Minister, as revealed in the twelve qualities shared by successful holders of that office

The author of the newly-published Gimson’s Prime Ministers: Brief Lives from Walpole to May reflects on what holders of the office have in common – and don’t.

By Andrew Gimson | 21 March 2018 | 86 comments

Outsiders are not always good, and governments are not always bad

The columnist Steve Richards examines the rise of the modern demagogues, and their eventual, inevitable failure.

By Andrew Gimson | 17 June 2017 | 12 comments

May is far more comprehensible than the press will admit

Her refusal to gossip with journalists makes her serious.

By Andrew Gimson | 15 February 2017 | 70 comments

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