An air of realisation has descended on those hacks who habitually lay into England football managers with the passing of the great Bobby Rob...

My first work after becoming a freelance was at an organisation that looked after, among other things, buildings and other structures at Gov...

Back in May, I noted that some in the Republican party had found the victory of Barack Obama in the Presidential Election of late 2008 so h...

There can be few more embarrassing moments that the one suffered in 2006 by recursive sleb Tara Palmer-Tomkinson : having claimed to have ki...

A fortnight back, I looked at the idea of “Open Primaries”, which is being trialled by the Tories in the Devon constituency of Totnes. It’s...

Some sports don’t come cheap. And Formula 1 is the least cheap of them all. But in recent years, the budgets of the top teams have been astr...

Yes, only another three days to go in the Total Politics “best political blog” poll! As I explained recently , this is open to anyone, and ...

So preparations for London 2012 are on track, perhaps even a little ahead of schedule: this was the message from Seb Coe, Tessa Jowell and B...

It does not take long to find the numbers: the Home Office has put “the social and economic cost” of workplace use of currently illegal dru...

Keith Hellawell, former Chief Constable of West Yorkshire, is not most folks’ idea of softie liberalism: he’s supported the return of capita...

Ask any Home Secretary about the “war on drugs”, or whatever it’s called this week, and the response will be of success, of criminals brough...

Few subjects provoke debate more than that of currently illegal drugs. And few are more guaranteed to generate a Pavlovian, and robust, reac...

Here in Crewe, the drive by the various supermarket chains to cover more of the area’s retail space with their stores continues, apparently ...

For a newspaper that is so often labelled as a Labour party house journal, the Guardian gives a lot of column inches to the Tories. And tod...

There’s been another by-election. This one was in Norwich North, and once again Labour lost it. In fact, they lost it twice over, because th...

Yesterday, as I noted , Richard “Dirty” Desmond, who owns the increasingly downmarket and inaccurate Daily and Sunday Express , lost his li...

Let joy be unconfined. Richard “Dirty” Desmond has just lost his libel action against author Tom Bower. The Guardian has the story here . I...

For all in the industry, and all the others who care about the railways, it had been widely trailed, but was welcome nevertheless: Andrew Ad...

Right now, the Government is battling on two fronts, and neither has a visible exit strategy. One is Afghanistan, where the row over helicop...

How is it that a political party performs well at local level, but trails behind its rivals when it comes to parliamentary elections? It hap...