Paul Linford

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...

I was dismayed to read that the party leaders - and Gordon Brown - have pledged to continue the Barnett Formula as part of their three-point...

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

If being Prime Minister is inevitably the toughest job in British politics, then being a former Prime Minister is surely not that far be...

At the end of last week’s column, on the back of an opinion poll showing the party 11 points clear of the Tories, I suggested that the next...

Twelve months ago, Ed Miliband delivered what I described at the time as probably the most courageous party conference speech by any major p...

Shortly after Rupert Murdoch sacked him as editor of The Times in 1982, the great newspaperman Harold Evans wrote a book about his experien...

Shortly after becoming leader of his party in 2005, David Cameron caused consternation among Conservative supporters by claiming that he was...

It was Clement Attlee who famously told a Labour colleague that a period of silence from him would now be welcome, thereby inadvertently ear...

I thought this epic clip from the 2009 Labour Party Conference perhaps deserved another outing in the light of current events.... The enco...

First it was the News of the World, scrapped by its owner Rupert Murdoch in an attempted damage-limitation exercise amid allegations that it...

Over the course of the last couple of centuries, the Church of England has frequently if rather inaccurately been caricatured as "the C...

A little late due to stuff I won't bore you with...but here's my take on the Budget as published in Saturday's Journal. Over ...

Of all the many insults hurled at Gordon Brown during his troubled premiership, perhaps the most wounding was the one delivered by the then ...

As Sir John Chilcott's Inquiry into the war in Iraq continued to chip away at Tony Blair's historical reputation this week, another ...

When future historians come to assess the political events of 2010, two big counterfactual questions are likely to loom large in their minds...

No leadership election occurs in a political vacuum. For good or ill, the current race for the leadership of the Labour Party will invariabl...