Paul Linford

Originally posted on my Facebook page on the day after David Cameron stepped down as PM and Theresa May took the carving knife to his Cabine...

Labour hobbled itself in Thursday's election by choosing the wrong brother as leader in 2010, while the Liberal Democrats lost their pol...

Yesterday I outlined why I don't think the current Tory-Lib Dem coalition deserves to be re-elected.  Here's why I hope a Lab-Lib co...

Despite having a very good local constituency MP in Pauline Latham, here's why I won't be voting for her party on Thursday. 1.  Th...

My preview of the political year 2015, first published in yesterday's Journal.   It is Thursday, December 31, 2015. The newly-elect...

The Government has talked a lot about devolution over recent months but do Messrs Cameron and Osborne actually understand the meaning of the...

Well, on the basis that the North has 15m people in it and Scotland has 5m, it's one answer. http://www.thejournal.co.uk/opinion/paul-...

My end-of-conference season round-up is now online at The Journal website.  I argue that the fragmentation of British politics into a four-p...

My Journal column is now back online at the paper's website.  This week's naturally focuses on the Tory Party conference and you can...

My take on a less than satisfactory week for Labour's Ed Miliband.  From today's Journal. While on a personal level I was relie...

Today's Journal column on the aftermath of the Scottish referendum vote. AND so….as one of the big arguments in British politics is ...

"Gordon Brown emerged as the only genuine statesman in this whole sorry business. He embodies the very qualities that makes the rest...

Today's column in The Journal, tying together some of the independence referendum threads I have blogged about this week. SOON it wi...

Here's a front page from the Northants Telegraph that we featured this morning on HoldtheFrontPage as part of our latest round-up of ...

I've been thinking for some time about starting blogging again.  When I put the blog on hold last October, I said that the level of inte...

IF a week is a long time in politics, then two weeks is twice as long – and the fortnight since this column last appeared seems to have been...

Nearly a quarter of a century ago, a fringe party sent shockwaves through the political establishment after securing 15pc of the popular vot...

Whatever else the past seven eventful days in politics will ultimately be remembered for, it’s certainly been a good, maybe even vintage wee...

 Earlier this week I tuned in to an interesting radio discussion about whether, in the era of instant communication via text messaging, emai...

Andy Murray will win Wimbledon, Roberto Mancini will be sacked as manager of Manchester City, David and Victoria Beckham will return to the ...