Brown’s big speech
By Paul Richards 2.00pm The conference hall is filling fast. The set is blood-red. So are many of…
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Standing up for decency
Paul Richards’ Conference Notebok As I told Carolyn Quinn on BBC Radio 4’s Westminster Hour on Sunday night,…
Pancakes, anyone?
Paul Richards‘ Conference Notebook Very flat, Brighton. Yesterday was the emptiest I have ever seen conference. You could…
Really, what is the point of the Lib Dems?
The Paul Richards column Here’s a question: who is the only member of the Liberal Democrat frontbench with…
Learning to love Peter Mandelson
The Paul Richards column Next year marks an important political milestone: it will be 25 years since Peter…
Labour’s proud history must be celebrated in street names and statues
The Paul Richards column History was one of the few subjects I really enjoyed at school. I was…
The rhetorical question- how to craft a great speech?
The Paul Richards column With summer a fading memory, what will be occupying the minds of ministers and…
It’s time to end Labour’s dynasties
The Paul Richards column I was saddened to hear of the death this week of Senator Teddy Kennedy,…
Opposition will be bleak enough without descending into civil war
The Paul Richards column Like death, Labour going into opposition is one of those subjects people don’t like…
We have to be insurgents at conference, filled with energy and hungry for renewed change – here’s how
The Paul Richards column Long ago Tony Benn warned us that Labour’s conference was becoming so sanitised that…
