Paul Anderson, Tribune column, July 29 2005 First it was George Galloway and the Socialist Workers Party. Then came Robin Cook and Chatham...

Ian Buruma has a characteristically insightful piece in the FT magazine today, taking on leftist attempts to pin the blame for the London b...

If the Metropolitan Police are right, 7/7 was the work of British subjects. The Met says that four rucksack-carrying men, three of them from...

I spent most of yesterday thinking I’d had a lucky escape. I overslept and missed the 7.21 train from Ipswich to London. If I’d caught it, I...

The outrages in London are the work of enemies of humanity. There should be massive demonstrations throughout Britain this weekend to show o...

Paul Anderson, Tribune column, 1 July 2005 I know columnists are supposed to have trenchant opinions about everything, but I just can’t ge...

It's that time of year again.

Has anyone come up yet with any position better than (genuine, aka no CAP or textile or steel protectionism) free trade? I only ask.

I wouldn't quite endorse everything that Timothy Garton Ash has to say in the Guardian today, (read it here ), but it's close to the...

Bob Woodward tells loads we didn't know about the Watergate story – the greatest scoop of the past century – in the Washington Post her...

The Dutch have voted "no" too, which makes it pretty much inconceivable that the Brits will hold a referendum, which means that th...

And another thing . . . The French “no” shows that self-indulgence remains a powerful force on the left in France. In 2002, left protest-v...

The “no” victory in the French referendum on the EU constitution cannot have come as much of a surprise to anyone, although the margin was r...

Patrick Cockburn has a fascinating account of MI5’s surveillance of his father Claud in the Independent today , extracted from his memoir o...

Glyn Morgan has an excellent piece in the Independent on Sunday here saying what I thought had become the unsayable: what's wrong with...

With characteristic clarity, John Palmer puts the left case for a yes vote in the French and Dutch referendums on the European constitution ...

The emergency conference of the Association of University Teachers today voted by a large-ish majority – it wasn't a card vote, so no nu...

Blimey. Ann Clwyd has been narrowly elected chair of the parliamentary Labour Party (click here ) – I thought she'd lose. Which goes to...

The German Social Democrats’ defeat in the North Rhine-Westphalia Land election on Sunday was not unexpected, but its scale was – and now Ge...

Time has passed since my last post on this ( here ) but I've not changed my mind, and now I'm going to the university lecturers'...