Paul’s Week in Politics Articles

The greatest challenge for Labour, gathering today in Manchester, is to explain what it is for. The greatest temptation will be to shout about what it is against. It will be easy for Labour to spend the next four days in a near-religious ferment of indignation,...

Blink, and you might have missed the news this week that a panel of judges has decided that Prince Charles’ letters to government ministers are covered by the Freedom of Information Act. Well, not all of them. The prince has been sharing his views with ministers for...

Tony Blair has been advising the Labour party what to do since the 1970s. Since leaving office, having never lost an election, he continued to advise Labour, not least in his colossus of a memoir. It sold millions of copies across the world, in many languages,...

One of my early, and, as it turned out, multiple, unsuccessful encounters with girls involved lecturing some unsuspecting sixth-former about why she shouldn’t open her student bank account with Barclays. The reason, as anyone over 40 will tell you, is because Barclays...