Paul Linford

Despite having a very good local constituency MP in Pauline Latham, here's why I won't be voting for her party on Thursday. 1.  Th...

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...

When the history of David Cameron’s government comes to be written, the Budget delivered by Chancellor George Osborne on 21 March may well b...

Over the past few weeks, the domestic political agenda has been dominated by the continuing fallout from what has by now surely become of th...

Writing last Saturday, the Newcastle Journal's regional affairs correspondent Adrian Pearson opened his column with the words: "If ...

Youth unemployment topping 1m. An additional 129,000 people out of work in the past month. The overall number of jobless at its highest l...

Among the stories to catch my eye this week was one warning that the £16bn Crossrail scheme to link East and West London may have hit a pote...

Much of the criticism of the Heathrow decision has centred on what it says about the government's environmental credentials, but there i...

I'm not going to accuse the Tory Party of being about to abandon the North of England on the back of today's report by the right-le...

For this weekend's column, I returned to an old hobby-horse - regional transport funding. The launch of the new Eurostar terminal at St...

I thought Nick Brown would get his old job of Chief Whip back in today's reshuffle. It would have been no less than he deserved for his...