I've been out of sorts the past fortnight, and it's not just the usual stuff - getting a bit too drunk at a family function, the tha...

Paul Anderson, Tribune column, 20 July 2007 Bah! I was going to treat you all to a pastiche of the Alastair Campbell diaries in this colum...

I might be late on this, but I wonder whether Simon Jenkins's sour piece today on Ali's little tome has something to do with Campbe...

The National Union of Journalists' national executive decided on Friday to do no more about its annual delegate meeting decision to cal...

Paul Anderson, Tribune , 6 July 2007 Douglas Hill, the reviews editor of Tribune from 1971 to 1983, has died after being run over by a dou...

Thanks to Gregg (comments on previous post) for directing readers to Luke Akehurst here and the following details of the first round of vot...

Well, not really — but it does seem that Harriet Harman's victory in the Labour deputy leadership election was far from straightforward....

Paul Anderson, Tribune column, 22 June 2007 At least it’s nearly over. Labour’s deputy leadership contest has been even more uneventful th...

Paul Anderson, review of The Offbeat Radicals by Geoffrey Ashe (Methuen, £17.99), Tribune 22 June 2007 The Offbeat Radicals is a book I ...

Paul Anderson, review of Young Stalin by Simon Sebag-Montefiore (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, £25), Tribune 15 June 2007 The central tenet of ...

Paul Anderson, Tribune column, 25 May 2007 I have never quite worked out why so many people who are involved in politics think that party...

Paul Anderson, Tribune column, 27 April 2007 Small things can cheer you up sometimes, and this week’s small thing for me was that Segolene...

Well, the extremely good news from the exit polls from the first round of the French presidential election is that Segolene Royal appears to...

The latest polls show Jean-Marie Le Pen now in third place in the French presidential race. If on Sunday the self-indulgent imbeciles of the...

Becasue I teach journalism at a university and work as a journalist, I'm a member of two trade unions, the University and College Union ...

It's Derby at home this afternoon, and I need some serious beautiful fitba — and victory — to persuade me to renew the season ticket. A ...

Speculation is rife over when Blair will resign. I have no inside info on this (and nor, I suspect, has anyone else who is writing about it)...

Been busy, so only just noticed this from Oliver Kamm, but is he right or is he right?

Dig this: special TGV beats the world rail speed record. It's not as sexy as Mallard but I'm sick to death of crap Brit trains. With...