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Paul’s Week in Politics Articles
Blown on course?
I’m not privy to what appeared on Labour’s media grid at the start of the week, but I doubt it included John Prescott...
Bend it Like Beckham territory
I feel a bit of a fraud writing about Feltham and Heston. By ‘bit of’ I mean ‘total’. The main thing I learned from my...
The last decent Englishman?
But what a life. Michael Foot is a giant of Labour politics, and I am going to spend the next thousands words telling...
Test column
Will the weakest link say goodbye?
Ritual attacks on Brown, Darling, Mandelson and the rest, laboured jokes about bullying, Piers Morgan and the forces...
Ease up on the reshuffles and start trusting ministers
I may be the last person on earth (or at least in politics) to read them, but I am midway through the new paperback...
An autumn 2010 general election could well be on the cards
For Labour, life after May seems almost impossible to imagine. It reminds me of an episode of the Goodies when they...
The leopard still has its spots
The Conservative Party: from Thatcher to Cameron, by Tim Bale If a future historian wants to know why either David...
Antisemitism alive and kicking in modern Britain and how Labour should fight it
The casual anti-Jewishness of most of British society, prevalent before the war, and found everywhere from the royal...
Blair at Chilcot will change little: minds will not be altered, nor Iraqi voices heard
If you were in student politics in the 1980s you were handed a lot of leaflets. I remember only one. It was given to...
Don’t listen to Jeremy Clarkson: look to England to see NHS ‘targets’ vindicated
Thanks to a seating planner with a sense of humour I found myself sitting next to Andrew Lansley's chief of staff at a...