Paul Anderson, Tribune column, 11 June 2010 So, as the Clash put it so memorably in one of the stand-out tracks of their London Calling ...

David Taylor in today's Independent on Sunday here : There must be a decent percentage of the population whose ideal Culture Secretary...

Paul Anderson, Tribune column, 14 May 2010 Quite understandably, most political commentary on the general election has focused on the ex...

I've had enough of idiotic Tories and BBC hacks talking bollocks about "unelected prime ministers". We've got a parliament...

Well, there's something of the cool dude about Gordon Brown after all. I thought he'd do something like this after watching the stat...

Despite my aversion to prediction, I’d be prepared to put money on the next general election taking place under the first-past-the-post elec...

I was thinking of not bothering to reply to the City University Islamic Society’s riposte to me and Rosie Waterhouse ( see below ) because I...

Paul Anderson, Tribune column, 16 April 2010 If there’s one thing I’ve learned in nearly 30 years of writing about politics, it’s that i...

Labour's campaign launch today was very impressive. Gordon Brown was on the ball, and they all seemed to be enjoying themselves. One que...

In a first step towards open engagement with its critics (see previous post ), the City University Islamic Society has published this diatr...

This election is more of a no-brainer than any in the past 30 years. The Tories have a recipe for crashing the economy. Do not trust them. V...

Last week I did what no university lecturer should ever do. I lost my temper in front of a group of students and shouted at them. I might a...

Paul Anderson, Tribune column, 19 March 2010 Several people have asked me over the past few months when I’m going to outrage the readers...

Paul Anderson, Chartist , May-June 2010 The death of Michael Foot at the age of 96 in early March has been marked by dozens of appreciat...

The journalist and novelist Mervyn Jones, who has died at the age of 87, was one of the stalwarts of the British left intellectual scene f...

I am sad to hear of the death last week at the age of 85 of the writer Colin Ward. He was Britain's most influential anarchist of the la...

Paul Anderson, review of Wasted: Why Education Isn’t Educating by Frank Furedi (Continuum, £14.99), Tribune , 29 January 2010 Frank Fur...

Paul Anderson, Tribune column, 22 January 2010 Reforming the voting system is an anorak thing most of the time – but every now and again ...

Paul Anderson, review of The Left at War by Michael Bérubé (New York University Press, £19.99), Tribune , 15 January 2010 “Whither the l...

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