It seems that the latest Liam Byrne Labour focus groups show that voters who defected from Labour in 2010 are worried about crime and immig...

Chartist , May-June 2011 'You call yourself a libertarian socialist,' said my girlfriend the other day. 'But what does it actu...

I'm spending this evening uploading lots of my old stuff on to Gauche from 20 years ago and more. Apologies if you get alerts via Facebo...

Two key moments: 1 Rachel Sylvester in the Times suggesting that the coalition will probably keep going forever. 2 The report showing that y...

Paul Anderson, Tribune column,  13 May 2011 Last week's defeat for the “yes” campaign in the alternative vote referendum was richly de...

The resounding defeat for the alternative vote in this week's referendum means that Nick Clegg's "miserable little compromise...

I hate it. The Sex Pistols got it right in 1977 . And here's the tacky public blow-job moment. They really have no shame at all:

Paul Anderson, Tribune column, 15 April 2011 There was a time, long ago, when referendums were anathema to us Brits. Referendums were Fr...

I had great fun yesterday at the Oxford Literary Festival at a debate put on by the Orwell Prize on whether George Orwell or Rudyard Kipling...

Paul Anderson, Tribune column, 18 March 2011 The week before last, Tribune published a letter from Terry Ashton, one-time general secretar...

Labour's decisive victory in the Barnsley Central by-election is excellent news, if only because it seems to show that (a year too late)...

Thanks to Hegemony or Bust for alerting me to these:

I've only just caught this – an excellent piece from the current Tribune by Paul Hackett of the Smith Institute on Labour's elector...

I can't be the only old saddo who wonders what might come out of the archives about his generous support of the far-left in Britain .

Paul Anderson, Tribune column, 18 February 2011 Something tells me that the campaign in the run-up to the referendum on the voting system...

The Guardian 's instant book on the biggest news story de nos jours , WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy by David Le...

I have set up a new blog AV IS NOT PR , to put the argument for voting "no" in the referendum on the voting system on the grounds ...

Paul Anderson, Tribune column, 21 January 2011 It’s an old adage of political journalism that it’s a mistake to read too much into a singl...

The resignation of Alan Johnson as shadow chancellor is a surprise – but then so was his appointment, and he had hardly shone in his role. E...

Labour's victory in the Oldham East and Saddleworth by-election was hardly a surprise, though it was more emphatic than I expected. But ...