Tottenham, 6 August 2011

Paul Anderson, Tribune column, 5 August 2011 It would be difficult to create a more half-arsed political initiative than Blue Labour if yo...

Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock put his foot in it on the Today programme this morning when he told John Humphrys that he favoured regulat...

It's all marvellous television – or would be if the BBC's journalists weren't on strike – but the implosion of News Corporation...

Shadow Welsh secretary Peter Hain wants the Welsh Assembly elected by first-past-the-post rather than the proportional additional member sys...

The closure of a newspaper is always a sad thing. People lose their jobs and there’s less to buy on the newsstands. But some closures matter...

Paul Anderson, Tribune column, 8 July 2011 Last week could have been worse for Ed Miliband. Labour won a decisive victory in the Inverclyd...

Even though it is owned by the evil Rupert Murdoch, the Times has been consistently better as an all-round quality newspaper than the Guard...

Tom Watson MP in the House of Commons this afternoon (from Hansard): News International’s decision to throw Andy Coulson to the wolves las...

The government’s white paper on higher education, unveiled today by David Willetts, contains few surprises. It more-or-less follows the Brow...

My thoughts on Labour's policy review. Stay Keynseian on economic policy Keep going Ed-Balls-style. Never abandon John Maynard Keynes...

The Economist (on the Greece crisis) sums up what's wrong with the EU right now: Sharing budgetary resources, either through direct tra...

Paul Anderson, Tribune column, 10 June 2011 When the Tories and Liberal Democrats stitched up their coalition a little more than a year ag...

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: