If you're old enough to remember, there was a time when column shifters were a thing. From the personal luxury coupe to your family's station wagon all the way up to your grandparents' luxo barge, ...

William Henry Fox Talbot's photo of the Column in 1844. You’ve climbed all over the lion statues next to it, scattered bird-feed at pigeons flapping around it, met your mates at it, wondered how to ...

The column about Britain is named after one of the finest editors of The Economist: Walter Bagehot (pronounced “Bajut”), who edited the paper between 1861 and 1877. A British Liberal politician once ...