Paul Linford

Today's column in The Journal, tying together some of the independence referendum threads I have blogged about this week. SOON it wi...

If being Prime Minister is inevitably the toughest job in British politics, then being a former Prime Minister is surely not that far be...

The first thing I need to say about Margaret Thatcher is that when it comes to the former Prime Minister, I can scarcely be regarded as a di...

 Earlier this week I tuned in to an interesting radio discussion about whether, in the era of instant communication via text messaging, emai...

Seven years ago, the Conservative Party faithful gathered in Blackpool for what most observers expected would be a leadership stand-off be...

Broken promises are nothing new in politics.   From the Labour Party’s 110-year-old pledge to introduce an elected House of Lords to George ...

If there is a single word that has come to define David Cameron's premiership over the past two years - and one that is likely to contin...

More than a quarter of a century ago, a young, recently-elected Labour leader found himself caught on the horns of an excruciating political...

Over the course of the last couple of centuries, the Church of England has frequently if rather inaccurately been caricatured as "the C...

Nearly a quarter of a century ago, the then Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher gave an interview which for many summed up the 'greed is go...

It is a moot point whether Thursday's protests over the government's decision to raise universities tuition fees to £9,000 amounted ...

The milestone of a new government's 100th day in office is one of those political landmarks which is perhaps given undue significance by...

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

I bet you didn't think you'd see a headline like that today from a left-of-centre blogger. But just as 1979 turned out to be a sem...

This week's Saturday column in the Newcastle Journal focuses on the Conservatives and specifically on whether David Cameron needs to do ...

The BBC's Daily Politics show is currently running a poll to find Britain's greatest peacetime Prime Minister . At least that makes ...

A couple of months back, a propos of the ongoing debate over Margaret Thatcher's funeral arrangements, I put a semi light-hearted comme...

My old Newcastle Journal colleague Brian Brady reported in this week's Scotland on Sunday that Tony Blair is planning a State Funeral f...