Paul Linford

The cry of 'betrayal' is one of the most oft-heard in politics. Labour faced it on numerous issues between 1997 and 2010, not leas...

Ever since the new coalition came into office, the consensus has been that its political honeymoon would last only as long as it took for re...

Is politics returning to normal? Even before the government's pettyfogging decision to boycott Question Time over, of all things, the pr...

Bugger Super Tuesday, and even the supercasino decision...the story that's got me going today is the demise of Grange Hill after 30 gl...

Like most people on the centre-left, I have grown up with the idea that Grammar Schools are elitist and socially divisive. But the ongoing...

Ruth Kelly appears to have survived the calls for her to quit over the sex offenders in schools row - but now she faces an even bigger chall...