This is just a short item about the standard of writing, both in general and in the sphere of political commentary... For a few years now, I have been watching not only the organisational sources of various forms of public writing, but also — and more specifically — the political columnists themselves. They tend to fall into various categories as regards their own political leanings, whether a...

AS A journalist and a political blogger I, of course, read a lot of political writing; from national to local newspapers, from political websites and blogs to magazines and periodicals. I think, despite what a lot of our elected representatives say about political journalism in this country, that we are in a very rich vein right now-with a real wealth of great writing to get our teeth into. Of cou...

The former political editor of New Statesman, Martin Bright, has started blogging for his former employer’s arch-rival Spectator magazine. In his opening salvo he acknowledges the tension: So here I am on hostile ground, writing for a readership I barely understand (although I hope we will get to know each other better). British politics is nothing

The white smoke lasted all of a few seconds: from the moment I became editor I knew who I wanted to succeed me as political editor. In what few discussions I had about it, the same name was clearly ahead. And reading the comment threads, you guys knew it too. But today it’s official: James Forsyth, whose political analysis you have been following for so long, will be the new political editor...

by Paul Goodman My starting-points in thinking and writing about Islam and politics are that - Islam isn't the same thing as Islamism - in other words, it isn't a political ideology (although, say, the Jamaat E Islami and the...

Political correctness and fear have led to the whitewashing of Islam in books used by American students.

Ooh - they look nice. Wonder if the paper will tell us where to get them? It's an old one, but I've only just seen this Political Correctness Gone Mad panic story used as an example of something that's really happened that proves that Political Correctness has really gone stark staring bonkers and is ruining the fabric of this country as we know it. Gah! Batten down the hatches, chaps! The PC

Steve Rhodes, in reviewing Goldeneye, mentioned that: Xenia Onatopp, the femme fatale, is played with tremendous zeal by Famke Janssen, and flies brilliantly in the face of political correctness. Those last nine words are a credit to a modern day writer. It’s difficult to effectively analyse the essential problem with political correctness and many words have been written on the topic but ma...

Writing in the Spectator in 2003, Peter Oborne, now a Daily Mail columnist, gave the best analysis of political journalism I have seen. After joining the London Evening Standard's parliamentary lobby in the early 1990s, he recalled, he daily expected dismissal because he had no idea how to recognise a political story or write one. "I acquired a haunted look, lost more than a stone in weight."...

The shadow justice secretary will launch a wide-ranging attack on Labour's "zealous" political correctness and set out the Tory vision of multicultural Britain, in a speech in London later today.