I’ve been an avid reader of Oliver Kamm’s weblog (click here ) since he started it – and his new book, Anti-Totalitarianism: The Left-wing C...

OK, I accept the last post was a bit crude in its conclusions (as several respondents have said) but it was supposed to be. I don't th...

Paul Anderson, Tribune column, 18 November 2005 I’m not a religious believer and haven’t been for a very long time — I think I must have c...

As advertised earlier, I've got a big project on at the moment: editing George Orwell's journalism in Tribune for a book coming out ...

Thanks to Slugger for drawing attention to this extraordianry interview with "Gorgeous" George on the BBC's Northern Ireland...

Paul Anderson, Tribune column, 4 November 2005 * I know that, in the grand scheme of things, whether or not you’re allowed a Marlboro with...

Paul Anderson, Tribune column, 30 September 2005 I suppose it was inevitable that this week’s Labour Party conference would become the Go...

Council tax revaluation to go, according to the Guardian . Very brave, I don't think. It's all falling apart quicker than I'd im...

I worked on the first edition of the Berliner Guardian last night as a sub on the comment page and I am massively impressed by the redesign...

Edvard Grieg! Henrik Ibsen! Edvard Munch! Roald Amudsen! Thor Heyerdahl! Can you hear me, Thor Heyerdahl ! Your boys took one hell of a b...

There was a piece by Richard Norton-Taylor in the Guardian yesterday on the latest releases from the National Archives , which mentioned i...

Paul Anderson, Tribune column, 26 August 2005 There's nothing like the death of a prominent politician still in his or her fifties to ...

I'm off for a week in Scotland, in the course of which I hope to visit George Orwell's old house in Jura. I'm looking forward t...

Not for the first time, Harry has posted before me on something I’ve been chewing over: the strange way in which, on Iraq and 7/7, a lot of...

Two snippets from New Statesman and Society (as it then was) in 1994, one from a piece by Ian Aitken and one a leader I wrote while the bos...

The death of Robin Cook yesterday is a real shock. I knew him well when I was working as a political journalist – he was a member of Europea...

Norman Geras has an incisive pair of posts on apologists for the 7/7 outrages: "There are those who say that terrorist bombing isn...

I’m late on this, but what the hell. On Monday, Peter Wilby, former editor of the New Statesman , had an extraordinary column in the Guardia...

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...