Paul Linford

Over the course of the years in which I reported on political conferences for The Journal, I listened to a fair few party leader’s speeches,...

I'm finally back from my late-summer break so without further ado here's today's Journal column rounding up the events of the pa...

David Davis says he feels vindicated over the government's decision to scrap its absurd plan to detain terror suspects for 42 days - on...

The talk is that Labour is set to piss on David Davis's bonfire and emulate the Lib Dems by refusing to run a candidate in the forthcomi...

David Davis's shock decision to resign from the Commons and fight a by-election over 42-day detention is, ostensibly at least, designed...

A little later than usual, but here's my weekend column from the Journal focusing on the 42-day detention issue and what it could mean f...

Natually I will oppose any attempt by the government to extend the period of detention without charge by longer than 28 days - it is far too...

I learned fairly early on my journalistic career that getting senior police officers to take responsibility for their actions is no easy tas...

Firstly, many congratulations to Rachel North on her marriage on Saturday. With the conclusion of the trial into the foiled terror plot , ...

My attention has been drawn to an excellent but extremely disturbing post on Rachel from North London today predicting some potentially sha...

I guess everyone remembers where they were when 9/11 happened. I was working in the House of Commons at the time, just the length of a corri...

Not surpisingly, the number of conspiracy theories about last Thursday's terror said continues to multiply on the web. Even if you don...

Largely thanks to Iain Dale linking to my Prescott post (below) I had a record number of hits on this blog yesterday, as well as getting in...