Paul Linford

An emotional day today as I travelled to North Wales to bid farewell to my former regional lobby friend and colleague Ian Craig . A sad oc...

Last Friday I received an email from an old friend in the Press Gallery informing me of the death of Ian Craig, until earlier this year the ...

So much for cartoonist Slob's take on "Smeargate." Do I share his sense of nausea at the Adoration of the Guido that has fol...

Today's call by the House of Lords' Communications Committee for the introduction of televised lobby briefings inevitably gave me a...

The latest issue of Total Politics is now out and Sir Cyril Smith is the latest subject in my Where Are They Now? series. The short answer...

After initially taking the view that political bloggers had little to gain, and much to lose in terms of their independence by joining the p...

My old colleague Graeme Whitfield recently celebrated ten years on the staff of Newcastle's Journal by naming his ten most memorable Jou...

As long-standing readers of this blog will know, Tony Bevins was one of my journalistic heroes . So it was good to hear that a group of fri...

God forbid that I ever turn into one of those gnarled old ex-lobby hacks who continually lament that political reporting is not what is was ...

Donnish Times commentator Tim Hames caused a stir earlier this week by nominating the Guardian's Michael White for a political fixer...

I used to have a lot of time for Peter Kilfoyle. He should in my view have been made Chief Whip after Nick Brown was moved from the post in ...

Good to see some old lobby traditions have survived despite the demise of the old Press Bar . And congratulations to the two new chairmen C...

Sincere congratulations to my old Lobby colleague Bob Roberts on his promotion to Mirror political editor. Although one of the nicest guys ...

Ian Austin was not someone who endeared himself to the Lobby during my time there. He took over from the great Charlie Whelan but entirely l...

The start of the Parliamentary recess today spells the end of an era for a great and venerable journalistic institution - the Press Bar at t...

Iain Dale posed the following very interesting question on his blog yesterday: Political journalists are merely frustrated politicians? Dis...

I can't claim to have been a friend of Dave's, but we worked together in the regional lobby for a couple of years in the 1990s and I...

Another thing that happened while I was away was the infamous Newsnight interview involving blogger Guido Fawkes . Guido has himself conced...