Paul Linford

After the initial thrill of seeing Liberal bums occupying ministerial seats for the first time since the wartime coalition of the 1940s, the...

Forgive me if I'm wrong but I've not noticed any bloggers or journalists who have thus far picked up on this intriguing paragraph in...

In response to a request earlier from my old friend Toque , I joined a Facebook Group dedicated to blocking the new government's daft p...

Who will be the one to clean-up politics in the wake of the MPs expenses scandal? David Cameron? Gordon Brown? Or perhaps new Speaker John...

Gordon Brown may have survived the Cabinet crisis and the Euro-elections debacle, but Alan Johnson is still in the driving seat to lead Labo...

Who will be the next Speaker? Will there be an October election? And will we get proportional representation? Just some of the many una...

My Saturday column in today's Newcastle Journal takes as its theme the current controversy over MPs expenses and the conduct of House o...

In my weekend Column I speculated that the appointment of Paul Murphy to the Welsh Office might turn out to be rather short-term and that t...

Yesterday Dizzy speculated that the government was about to create a new Department for Devolved Affairs from the existing Scottish, Welsh ...

Reviving the constitutional reform agenda was always going to be a central aspect of Gordon Brown's premiership as he seeks to restore p...

I am pleased to see that the blogfather himself Iain Dale has now joined http://broganblog.dailymail.co.uk/2007/10/rebuttal-recons.html...

I have already made clear my own view that it's high time we moved to a system of four-year fixed-term parliaments in this country, so ...

I passed up the opportunity to blog on the details of Gordon Brown's constitutional reform proposals this week because I wanted to save ...

It was always clear that Gordon Brown's first big political initiative as Prime Minister was likely to be in the area of "trust,...