Paul Linford

Here's my annual political review of the year, published in this morning's Newcastle Journal. Until the early months of this year,...

There is a school of thought that says that once a government gets itself into a position where it needs a relaunch, the brand is probably ...

THIS week, The Journal reported that there had been more than 900 objections lodged with the Boundary Commission over its plan to alter the ...

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

Who will be the next Speaker? Will there be an October election? And will we get proportional representation? Just some of the many una...

Has inability to deal with a few inches of snow turned Britain into an international laughing stock? No, but there's plenty of other thi...

Like the UK Daily Pundit ,I am snowed under at the moment - in my case trying to deal with the impact of the recession on the regional press...

Lords reform - and how Tony Blair's failure to address it seriously in his first term has now come back and bitten him on the bum - is t...

... but Gordon's Government maybe can . It is a savage indictment of the Blair Government's loss of reforming nerve that it has take...

You would think, wouldn't you, that with all the problems it is encountering as a result of the cash for peerages inquiry, Labour would...

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 ...

Much of the interest in the new list of working peers will doubtless centre on which of them have donated money to the two main parties - b...