It seems that Chris Huhne is an unpleasant and flawed man. His public image was of a preening, arrogant politician....
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Paul Richards Articles
Sobering up parliament
Congratulations if you, like me, have just completed a Dry January. My feeling of smugness at having not touched a...
The SWP and all that
Like a kind of Miranda (from the Tempest, not the woman who falls over on BBC1) in reverse, Laurie Penny has decided...
Why we march
There's the inevitable breakaway marches, heading in the direction of Oxford Street, the City of London, or any other...
It’s incompetence, stupid
In the 1970s, you waited months to have a telephone line installed, your car broke down, shops closed for lunch, and...
Big society battle rages on
This was a ‘backbench' debate secured by the Tory MP for Dover Charlie Elphicke. The motion was ‘That this...
Remembering Memorial Hall
Most delegates came from the working class districts of London: Shepherd's Bush, Stepney, Walthamstow, Battersea,...
Coalition must help north African transitions
There's a lesson there about the efficiency of outsourcing compared to a state-owned organisation like the SAS. The...
Gypsies: tramps and thieves?
I was taught at school that ‘gypsy' was a derivation of the word ‘Egyptian', used in Elizabethan England...
The ‘British Dream’
He intends to link his own life experiences (known in the trade as his ‘backstory') with Labour's historic...
Upward mobility for Labour
His acceptance of a role with the Conservative-led government as adviser on social mobility raised some eyebrows and...
Celebrate now but resist by-election illusions
The Liberal Democrats obviously believed they could win - that's why they went through the rigmarole of the election...