Paul’s Week in Politics Articles

There’s a stench of death around this coalition government. In many ways, the deadly bacillus was incubated from the start, from the moment the rose garden love-in took place in June 2010. The presence of the Liberal Democrats gave life to this Tory-led government,...

If you’ve ever done the tour of the Houses of Parliament, it is impossible to come away without a strong sense of history, pomp and pageantry. You get the same feeling looking round the state rooms at Buckingham Palace, St George’s Chapel, Windsor or the Foreign and...

The age of official secrets is ending, but the age of transparency is experiencing a difficult birth. States must keep secrets; companies, institutions and citizens too have a right to privacy. But the line between privacy and the public interest is shifting. We saw...

The legacy of the first world war is with us still. Not perhaps the men with shattered bodies and minds selling matches on street corners, or those polishing their medals every November. The generation with first-hand experience of the war has passed, leaving sepia...