Paul Linford

My Journal column may have gone, but life and politics goes on, and since this blog is now the sole remaining outlet for my political writ...

My take on a less than satisfactory week for Labour's Ed Miliband.  From today's Journal. While on a personal level I was relie...

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...

Can Barack Obama restore the American public's faith in politics? And can David Cameron restore the British public's faith in the To...

Mike Smithson is one of the genuine giants of political blogging so I'm always rather flattered when he namechecks this blog. Today he ...

Today's Guardian front page - apart from being a rather obvious plug by Patrick Wintour for his mate Andrew Rawnsley's new TV docum...

Comment is Free today features a somewhat preposterous counterfactual by Neil Clark speculating on what sort of country we would now be livi...