Bagehot’s notebook
- On “Game of Thrones”, Conservatism, Israel and Lidl
- On parliamentarians talented, vainglorious, entertaining and anarchic
- On political caricatures, “real” policies and the idea of public service
- On democracy, Sir Lewis Namier and the struggles of the super-rich
- On political paralysis, British intellectuals and the wisdom of Victorians
- On protesting “nuns”, a Labour “defection” and a story about “Andre Previn”