Paul Linford

Religion and politics have always been a potentially lethal combination. It is way too simplistic to say they don’t mix. Actually the prob...

There are some weeks as a political commentator when you can find yourself racking your brain for something to write about. On others, thou...

It may have been the most long-awaited event of the political year to date – but at first sight, former Prime Minister Tony Blair’s appearan...

Alastair Campbell's appearance before the Chilcot Inquiry this week was simply designed to lay the ground for the main event in a few we...

So Tony Blair has finally confirmed what we have all suspected for years - that he was determined to go to war in Iraq irrespective of wheth...

Clive Soley was one of my least favourite Labour MPs on several counts - his long campaign to curb freedom of the press, his mindless cheer...

Can Barack Obama restore the American public's faith in politics? And can David Cameron restore the British public's faith in the To...

I was genuinely pleased for Harriet Harman when she won the Deputy Leadership yesterday - she was by no means the worst of the six candidate...

Okay, so we got it wrong. Most of the pundits who have followed Labour's deputy leadership election contest over the past few weeks wer...

Forty years ago this year, a young Derbyshire police officer by the name of Aled Lloyd was killed in a panda car accident while answering a ...

There was a time when Peter Hain and the late Robin Cook were close allies, soft-left political soulmates who had essentially reached an acc...

Tony Blair says he is "against the death penalty, whether it is Saddam or anybody else." Nevertheless, the Government appears con...

Unlike some bloggers, I don't attempt to dress up personal speculation as fact, and neither am I going to pretend I've spent half th...

In a few hours time, the House of Commons will vote on the following motion, tabled by the SNP and Plaid Cymru and backed by the Liberal De...

What's the relationship between the War in Iraq and House of Lords reform? Well, perhaps little, except that they were both in the news ...

Ever since Tony Blair announced he would not fight a fourth election, we have witnessed a slow ebbing away of his authority. But today, that...

As a Christian, I have extremely mixed feelings about Tony Blair's latest assertion that God will be his judge over the Iraq war, with ...