Paul Linford

So, then, David Miliband – political colossus, or inconsequential footnote?   The greatest loss to British politics since the fall of Marga...

I thought this epic clip from the 2009 Labour Party Conference perhaps deserved another outing in the light of current events.... The enco...

Asked once how he would know his transformation of the Labour Party would be complete, Tony Blair famously replied: "When it learns to ...

All the media attention this week was on Nick Griffin and the BNP. But meanwhile, some possibly more significant developments have been tak...

Gordon Brown's use of the "c-word" this week was designed to clear the air over spending - but Labour's problems as it app...

David Cameron and George Osborne want us to think the Tories are the "new progressives" of British politics - but they can't s...

Is the Home Secretary the big winner after two weeks of "grandstanding" by Harman and Mandelson? Here's today's Journal ...

I posted this piece earlier today on HoldtheFrontPage's offsite blog The Journalism Hub but I thought I'd cross-post it here as it ...

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...

More on Mandy's assumption of power in my weekly column tomorrow.....

Those were the immortal words which were memorably not spoken by Peter Mandelson during a campaign visit to a Hartlepool fish and chip shop ...

Well after all, who would have thought NuLab would have nationalised the banks? Here's today's Journal column. Ever since Gordon Br...

So says the Business and Enterprise Select Committee whose job is to monitor the activities of Lord Mandy's new department. But not ju...

The government was as all over the place over the post office contract as it was over Baby P - but at least they got there in the end. Here...

Apologies for lack of blogging this week - a combination of illness and extreme busy-ness - but here's my weekly Journal column, focusin...