While holed up in the Travelodge, Euston last night (oh, the glamour) I caught the end of a discussion on Radio 4 with...
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Paul’s Week in Politics Articles
Time for intervention in Syria
There’s more than a whiff of the League of Nations about the UN this week after China and Russia’s veto of a...
Game on
The latest opinion poll in London shows Boris Johnson’s lead over Ken Livingstone evaporating. In a few months, by...
Clegg could be Lib Dems’ Ramsay MacDonald
Ramsay MacDonald, towards the end of his life, wrote in his diary that he had come to be seen as ‘the embodiment...
Another election awaits
It's Friday lunchtime and everyone is holding their breath. As I write, Nick Clegg is waiting at the altar to see if...
Tenacity is in Labour’s blood
After Thursday there will be those desperate to dance on the Labour Party's grave. An outright defeat or a slump in...
What can a visit to South Africa tell us about Cameron?
When Gordon Brown was 23, as a post-graduate student and Rector of Edinburgh University, he was an active and vocal...
Predicting Labour’s route to victory
With every new poll, such as Tuesday's Guardian/ICM which put the Tories just four points ahead, comes either a rush...
Mutualising Britain’s canals could lead us places
No matter where you live in Britain, you're not far from a canal. Many millions enjoy canals, for boating holidays, or...
Labour must not be seen as the ‘strikers’ friend’
First, the dispute. British Airways is losing money hand over fist. According to the Economist, in the nine months to...
Would Boudicca have been a Liberal Democrat?
Douglas Carswell, the Conservative MP for Harwich since 2005, claimed that the Conservative Party is the party of the...
A legacy in print
From the Guilty Men pamphlet in 1940, to his biographies of HG Wells, Byron, and Bevan, to his polemic against nuclear...