Paul Linford

My Journal column may have gone, but life and politics goes on, and since this blog is now the sole remaining outlet for my political writ...

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...

Of all the many soundbites devised by Tony Blair’s speechwriters for their leader’s party conference speeches, among the most irritating was...

With his leadership of the Labour Party still barely two months old, it did not take long for talk of plots against Ed Miliband to start cra...

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...

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...

This Friday, BBC Parliament is planning to screen 11 hours of coverage of the 1983 General Election , the one that has gone down in history ...

A week or so ago, Tara Hamilton-Miller in the New Statesman put together a list of the Top 10 Tory Twits. It was entertaining reading, thou...

Giles Radice was the kindest and most courteous of the North-East MPs I regularly dealt with in my old job as Political Editor of the Newcas...

As regular readers of this blog will know I have long tipped Environment Secretary David Miliband for great things under Gordon Brown, inclu...

Whatever health minister Ivan Lewis has said today, there can be no doubt that Hazel Blears' protest against NHS reorganisation in her ...

In a comment on the previous post , "Guardian Reader" questions the choice of Dennis Skinner as one of my least favourite MPs, say...

There has been much speculation of late as to the fate of Treasury minister and Gordon Brown first lieutenant Ed Balls following the Bounda...

Clare Short's resignation from the Labour Party today is not just the culmination of a long process of personal disillusionment with th...

Mo Mowlam (pictured) was just one of the people who played a big part in the creation of New Labour who didn't get a mention in Blair...

Doubtless Tony Blair will be glad to see the back of Clare Short , who today confirmed that she would be standing down as an MP at the next ...

Possibly the greatest victory against NuLab control freakery since Peter Mandelson failed to be elected to the NEC in 1997! Read the full s...

Commenting on the death of former miner and Labour MP Kevin Hughes, the former Europe minister Denis MacShane has lamented the decline of w...

Former Labour deputy leader Roy Hattersley has become the second most senior Labour figure (after Denis Healey) to join the growing list of...

I don't know who thought of doing THIS . But I wish it had been me.