The Labour party has become an effective opposition. As someone who desperately wants to see our party back in office,...
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Paul Richards Articles
Remembering our police
The tragic death of PC David Rathband reminds us that the victims of crime are so often wearing uniforms. Whatever the...
Masterclass in how not to reform
It’s easy to scoff at Andrew Lansley’s hapless handling of his NHS bill. From the day he walked into Richmond House,...
More than a flesh wound: five lessons for Labour from the Norwich North by-election
In the past few minutes, the result from the by-election in Norwich North has been announced. The Conservatives have...
Labour must act now on unemployment
If you found yourself on the terrace of the House of Commons in the first half of the 1980s, what dominated the view...
Despite the doom-mongers the next election will be no 1997 for David Cameron. Labour still has everything to play for
In The Napoleon of Notting Hill Gilbert Keith Chesterton describes the game that the human race (‘to which so...
Labour needs more fighters, and fewer quitters
My top three political-speeches-gone-wrong are Howard Dean's ‘I have a scream' in 2004, Kinnock's calamitous...
Total recall
Gibraltar has its Barbary apes, and the Tower of London its ravens. For Labour, we always had Tom Watson’s...
We only have a few weeks of active politics before the general election – we must start the campaign now
In the Dog and Duck, outside school gates, across garden fences, the talk is of little else. Britain nervously...
Now is the time for Labour to embrace direct democracy and introduce a recall system for MPs
Gibraltar has its Barbary apes, and the Tower of London its ravens. For Labour, we always had Tom Watson’s...
Poison pens
We used to think that the media was just out to get the left. We were wrong - they're out to get all politicians....
The joy of campaigning
Election campaigning is like sex – if you’re not enjoying it, you’re not doing it right. There are so many ways to...