The Labour National Executive Committee on Monday threw out the proposal to reopen selections for all sitting MPs who have been reselected t...

The more that has emerged from the Telegraph about MPs' expenses, the clearer it has become that the only way any of the main political...

Paul Anderson, Tribune column 15 May 2009 It’s that time of year again. I’ve got to sort out my accounts and file a tax return. I spent h...

I discover that my entry on David Miller's disgraceful left-McCarthyite website Neocon Europe, listing supposed "neocons", has...

My good friend Padraig Reidy from Index on Censorship and I were talking in the pub about columnists last week, and we concurred after 30 s...

OK, I know how bad the MPs' expenses claims look. But £24,000 a year as an allowance for accommodation in central London on the money mo...

I have just been informed of a tragic incident last year in which 65 canaries died of asphyxiation while being transported cruelly from thei...

I find that I am on a blacklist here of supposed "neo-conservatives". The perpetrator, David Miller, professor of sociology at th...

Paul Anderson, Tribune column, 17 April 2009 And there I was thinking the worst was over… As Neil Kinnock would have put it in his pomp, ...

Paul Anderson, Tribune column, 20 March 2009 Most political memoirs and diaries are deeply disappointing. I know, because I’ve ploughed th...

Paul Anderson, Tribune column, 9 February 2009 After more than 30 years of hoarding books, magazines, academic journals and newspaper cl...

Paul Anderson, Tribune column, 6 January 2009 Sometimes it seems that everything in Britain these days is doom and gloom. The banking cr...

Paul Anderson, Tribune column, 28 November 2008 Last week, one of my best friends died. I first met Patrick Fitzgerald at a meeting of th...

Paul Anderson, Tribune column, 31 October 2008 I hope that somewhere else in this magazine there is a cheery announcement that Tribune has...

The leftwing weekly Tribune will close after its 31 October edition unless a buyer can be found. At a meeting of its board last night, its...

The clock is ticking for the left weekly Tribune , which desperately needs its union proprietors to cough up the cash they promised four yea...

Paul Anderson, review of The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915-1919 by Mark Thompson (Faber and Faber, £25), Tribune , 3 ...

Paul Anderson, Tribune column, 3 October 2008 So – surprise, surprise – there was no attempt to topple Gordon Brown in Manchester last we...

Not a bad effort by Brown ( here ) – but I don't think it's anything like enough to turn his fortunes around.

I was planning to get to Manchester for Labour conference but a mixture of work commitments, the utter hopelessness of Britain's railway...