Paul Linford

The first thing I need to say about Margaret Thatcher is that when it comes to the former Prime Minister, I can scarcely be regarded as a di...

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

In last week's column, I suggested that the key strategic task facing the Liberal Democrats as they gather for their spring conference i...

So was it a political masterstroke as some pundits argued, or was it the beginning of the end of his leadership of the Labour Party – as two...

To kick off this week’s column, here are a couple of questions for political anoraks with long memories or people who were paying attention ...

Over the course of the years in which I reported on political conferences for The Journal, I listened to a fair few party leader’s speeches,...

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

For good or ill, most Prime Ministers ultimately tend to remembered for a single defining event or achievement that happened on their watch....

While some political arguments never quite go away, recurring down the years in different forms and different contexts, there are others tha...

Asked once how he would know his transformation of the Labour Party would be complete, Tony Blair famously replied: "When it learns to ...

Are the Tories economic saviours - or are they just opportunistic ideologues using the deficit crisis as an excuse to finish Thatcher's ...

With the election drawing ever closer, it is hard to say which of the three stories which have dominated the political agenda this week will...

Ever since it first surfaced during the 1992 US presidential campaign, the claim that all elections are essentially about “the economy, stup...

All elections leave a lasting legacy, but if there was one election in modern times which has influenced more or less everything that has ha...

There seems little to add to the reams of material that has appeared both in print and on the airwaves about the death of Michael Foot. He...

During the course of his long career, Gordon Brown can have faced few more humiliating episodes than having to run the gauntlet of journalis...

Sorry Jack, but you were right all along. Gordon Brown made the right call not to hold an election in autumn 2007 - and if all the recent...

At the risk of giving the Tories another bout of apoplexy, there are some interesting historical precedents surrounding the election of very...

I've not got time to wade into the MPs expenses row in detail as yet, although I have made my views on Mr Speaker Martin clear on Iain ...

Did Margaret Thatcher save Britain? Can Hazel Blears really become Britain's second woman PM? And could the MPs' expenses revelati...