Mr Blair's idea of Britain is one that Walter Bagehot would understand and support.

ECONOMIST: Anti-war Americans

Walter Bagehot's dictum needed updating when the crisis of confidence affected entire markets rather than single banks.

ECONOMIST: A collaboration over the credit crisis

Local government has now to choose if it is to be to use the distinction coined by Walter Bagehot a dignified or an efficient part of the constitution.

ECONOMIST: Resolving Labour��s local difficulties

Walter Bagehot, the Victorian editor of The Economist after whom this column is named, made a distinction between the efficient and the dignified parts of government.

ECONOMIST: A general theory of spin doctors

Next to keeping its currency stable, the critical mission of a central bank is to stem financial panics, something Walter Bagehot wrote eloquently about more than 130 years ago.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Walter Bagehot knew it could never be otherwise.

ECONOMIST: An alternative history lesson