Paul Linford

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

While there was much to applaud in George Osborne's autumn statement, there remains a fundamental disconnect between the Chancellor'...

The arrogance of George Osborne in seeking to impose a system of 'metro mayors' on cities which have already rejected the idea is qu...

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...

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

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

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...

I sometimes wonder how many times the noble Lord Barnett will have to disown his own formula, and how many critical reports on the infamous ...

Today's Daily Telegraph contains an apparently authoritative leak from Ken Clarke's "Democracy Task Force" which is looki...

Just when you thought that the Brown Government was going to do absolutely nothing to address the English Question...up pops today's Tel...

The Guardian had an interesting piece today in which it asked a series of musicians to name the songs that, for them, define Englishness. I...

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...

BBC coverage of this morning's radio Q&A with Nick Clegg has thus far focused on the revelation that he doesn't believe in God....

Hard on the heels of the controversy about whether Wales should be represented on the Union Jack, I suppose it was only a matter of time bef...

Today's weekly column picks up on David Cameron's latest attempt to address the English Question, but focusing less on his pledge to...

A few weeks ago, Toque invited me to join a new Facebook group called What England Means to Me, and to contribute to a new website of the ...

I'm with Gareth Young rather than Iain Dale over the Tories' plans for an "English Grand Committee" as set out in yester...

They've abolished tuition fees, introduced free eye care and dental check ups, dualled "their" bit of the A1 between Newcastle...

"I think Kelvin Mackenzie is a raving lunatic, I think he's a complete idiot and a racist idiot at that" Very well said, Dunca...