Labour Who’s Who – 1970s style
The Paul Richards column One of the joys of spring-cleaning is the discovery of long-forgotten Labour ephemera. In…
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7 tips for Gordon for a successful debate season
The Paul Richards Column The sun is shining over Westminster this afternoon. On College and Abingdon Greens the…
Saatchi? What a waste of money!
By Paul Richards / @LabourPaul Whatever the Tories are paying M&C Saatchi, their new ad agency, it’s too…
The budget, not Byers, will shape the election campaign
The Paul Richards Column To enjoy the television programme Hustle you must suspend your disbelief. If you’ve not…
Gove and Pickles’ Nasty Party reprise falls flat with voters
The Paul Richards Column Throughout the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, including the three years when David Cameron worked…
Down with the kids
The Paul Richards Column * UPDATE: At the end of the first paragraph of this piece, it is…
With the death of Michael Foot, we also mourn the loss of a different type of Labour Party
The Paul Richards Column History will judge Michael Foot kindly, recalling his immense literary canon, the excoriation of…
Vote Cameron, get “tougher than Thatcher” Tories – we can’t say we haven’t been warned
The Paul Richards Column For the third day in a row the YouGov daily opinion poll tracker suggests…
Tory proposals are designed to fatally wound Labour by 2015
The Paul Richards Column I have this friend. For the sake of the story, let us call her…
Cameron’s angry bullying shows his own party is rattled on policy
The Paul Richards column Winston Churchill was one of the biggest personalities of the twentieth century. He embraced…
