By Bagehot
BACK at the start of this year’s fall conference season, about a hundred years ago or perhaps last week, I gothere at a media reception for hacks at the Liberal Democrats’ event in Birmingham, just to discover myself looking at a jarringly familiar logodesign. There at this incomparably political event was the homely badge of the National Trust, the charity that owns or runs hundreds of majestic homes, gardens, natural reserves, be