OK, it's neutral and tight – but boy, what a headline act: 2p off the basic rate of income tax. It's true that most of that comes ...

The plan by UCAS, the universities admissions system, to ask prospective students about their parents' educational background has given ...

Roy Hattersley reviews Kenneth O Morgan’s Michael Foot: A Life (HarperPress, £25) in the Observer today (click here ). I have just finishe...

Part of my day-job is teaching a course on history of journalism at City University, and I've just had back a large batch of essays in w...

I have been alerted to this , which informs the world that the copyright owner of the Cameron Bullingdon Club aristo-scum pic has withdrawn ...

I know it sounds retro, but I enjoyed an excellent lunch today with Michael Foot at the Gay Hussar. Barckley Sumner, retiring deputy editor ...

Paul Anderson, Tribune column, 2 March 2007 Sometimes even Alastair Campbell gets it right. The old bruiser was up to some new tricks in ...

And here's how to murder another great socialist anthem... These guys are apparently serious Chinese alternativos but — dear me ...

This has more to do with Italian football hooliganism than politics, but it's impressive all the same:

I'm afraid I almost agree with Harry Barnes , a former Labour MP and one of the people that might just have backed the man 20 years ago:...

There's an absolutely brilliant radio programme on the role of Rupert Murdoch in British politics by Steve Richards here .

The picture that is worth 1,000 words – and many, many more votes.

OK, let's get serious again. I've now read just about every review of Nick Cohen's What's Left? and I'm astonished at h...

I have just set up a LiveJournal account. After submitting an entry on my interests, I received the following error message: Sorry, you hav...

Now fully recovered from the moderate excess of last night, but full of remorse. I should never have said to Peter Oborne as he left: "...

I'm just home from a launch party upstairs in a West End boozer for Nick Cohen 's What's Left? , one of the best bashes I've...

To begin, I’ll declare an interest: the journalist Nick Cohen is a friend, and in his new book, What’s Left? How the Liberals Lost Their Way...

My thanks to my comrade on the FT for alerting my to this brilliant spoof on (local newspaper?) journalism.