Paul Linford

Looking back over some old blog posts today, I came across this gem from 2006.  A propos of a discussion of who might succeed Tony Blair and...

Despite yesterday's fighting speech, Ed Miliband's personal unpopularity is dragging his party down and making the re-election of a ...

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

With Labour leading in the opinion polls and the relationship between the Coalition partners growing increasingly fractious, it would be eas...

When Ed Miliband was elected Labour leader on the opening day of the party's conference in Manchester in September, a leading Tory blogg...

Behind all the brave talk of new generations, it is my fairly considered view that this Labour conference has been little short of a disaste...

In my Journal column today I'm calling the 2010 general election against Gordon Brown and Labour. Not an easy one for me to write for re...

Why don't I want anyone to win the general election that will happen sometime in the first half of this year? Because its high time our...

With the possible exception of 2001 and 9/11, seldom has any political year in recent history been dominated by a single story to the extent...

All the media attention this week was on Nick Griffin and the BNP. But meanwhile, some possibly more significant developments have been tak...

Is the Home Secretary the big winner after two weeks of "grandstanding" by Harman and Mandelson? Here's today's Journal ...

Whoever ends up leading Labour into the election, the past seven days have shown where the power really now lies. Here's today's Jo...

Gordon Brown may have survived the Cabinet crisis and the Euro-elections debacle, but Alan Johnson is still in the driving seat to lead Labo...

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

"The Labour Party faces a shattering defeat at the next general election unless there is a fundamental change in the character, culture...

Could this week's "mini silly season" of Labour leadership stories turn into a full-blown crisis for Gordon Brown? Absolutely...

It was fairly predictable that the right-wing blogs would have a field day with yesterday's London Evening Standard story about Yvette ...

It's hard not to detect a pattern forming here....but full marks to the UK Daily Pundit who clearly knew something a good week or so bef...

We were told that seven ministers were going to resign, that Ruth Kelly's was just the first in a series of departures which would deliv...