Paul Richards Articles

Paul Richards investigates who will be Jeremy Corbyn’s successor as the hard-left’s anointed leadership candidate One thing you can guarantee, like rain on a bank holiday, is splits on the hard-left. The old Monty Python joke is funny because it is true. For the all...

Gloating over the alleged demise of the ‘big society’ – whether policy, philosophy or project – is pointless. It takes us nowhere. The idea that the left’s traditional service model – delivery direct from Whitehall or through local authority agents, producer-led, ‘we...

Almost every time he opens his gob, Simon Jenkins makes me want to tear up my membership of the National Trust. He’s done it again this week in his piece for the Guardian, dynamiting the Shard on the day it opens. The Shard has, he claims, ‘slashed the face of London...

Rejoice, rejoice! To the great relief of all users of social media, voting ends today for the Labour party’s national executive committee, as well as for the national policy forum and police commissioner candidates. There’s been a lot of chatter about ‘factions’ and...