Paul’s Week in Politics Articles

The Labour party, rightly, is obsessed with public services. Scratch the surface of any party member, and you’ll get a deluge of views about the health service, education system, libraries, railways and the local council. This is partly a reflection of the prism...

It seems that Chris Huhne is an unpleasant and flawed man. His public image was of a preening, arrogant politician. Just re-read his speeches as the energy secretary, and especially his ludicrously overblown promises around the so-called ‘Green Deal’.  Just a couple...

Congratulations if you, like me, have just completed a Dry January. My feeling of smugness at having not touched a drop of alcohol since new year’s eve is diluted somewhat by the fact that I am a moderate drinker, and can go a week or two sans booze without noticing....

Like a kind of Miranda (from the Tempest, not the woman who falls over on BBC1) in reverse, Laurie Penny has decided the Socialist Workers’ Party is a Bad Thing. She has looked at the comrades who hitherto she admired as part of a giant, mythological, heroic brave new...