The American investigative journalist Greg Palast was on fine form last night launching his new book, Vulture's Picnic ,  at an event at...

Michael Gove’s leaked plans for secondary education – if indeed they are actual plans rather than ideas towards a consultation document – ha...

The Tory peer Guy Black (Baron Black of Brentwood, to give him his proper moniker) has come up with a proposal for a tougher regime for sel...

Plenty of other people have pointed out that the Blarite think-tank-cum-pressure-group Progress hardly deserves to be compared with the Mili...

Like a lot of politics addicts, I’ve wasted a lot of time in recent weeks (well, months) watching the proceedings of the Leveson inquiry int...

Paul Anderson, review of P O E M 2012, Queen Elizabeth Hall There were 7,000 people at the International Poetry Incarnation at the Albert ...

I've had enough of the internet free-for-all. From now, the Gauche comments policy is: Comments are welcome, but I'm the editor, a...

Paul Anderson, Tribune column, 15 June 2012 I’m giving up university lecturing after 12 years and going properly freelance again – possib...

I've now posted 600 old pieces on my archive site,  pandersonjournalist.blogspot.co.uk , which is proof (a) that I need some work pronto...

I've not been posting on Gauche for the past couple of months because I've been using my screen time to put together my online archi...

Paul Anderson, Tribune column, 18 May 2012 There can be no doubt that over the past few weeks Labour has enjoyed its best run for a lo...

Paul Anderson,   Tribune column, 19 April 2012 There has been something about French politics that I’ve liked for as long as I can remembe...

Paul Anderson,   Tribune column, 23 March 2012 Sometimes, anniversaries come as a shock to the system. Yep, it’s 35 years this week that t...

Paul Anderson,   Tribune column, 24 February 2012 My dad was not a demonstrative man. A working-class Edinburgh boy, he became part of the...

Anna Chen has posted an extract from her Steam Punk Opium Wars show at the National Maritime Museum last week, in which I was privileged ...

Paul Anderson, Tribune column, 27 January 2012 So,farewell, then, Press TV, as Private Eye ’s spoof poet E. J. Thribb would say. The Irani...

I’ve just received the very bad news that my old comrade in arms David Henderson has died in Turin after contracting pneumonia. I’m gutted. ...

I’m sad to hear of the death of Janey Buchan, the Scottish left-wing activist and former MEP, at the age of 85. She was an extraordinary wom...

According to Labour front-bencher Liam Byrne, apropos of benefits policy : "something for something" means reward for those who a...

Five zero-net-cost measures that could be implemented at once: Increase vehicle tax to £500 a year and use the income to take rail fares d...