All news by author: Paul Routledge

The Transport Secretary has pulled back now, but is he genuinely abandoning the journey, Paul Routledge asks, or merely changing trains and not the destination?

Operation close down ticket offices seems to be getting under way, despite calls from MPs warning it is 'too far, too fast', says Paul Routledge

Groping allegations, watching porn in the chamber, strops over peerages... change can't come soon enough says Paul Routledge

The annual get-together needs to be slimmed down and modernised, says party member Paul Routledge

The Covid Inquiry has showed that Boris Johnson was in a blue funk during the Covid-19 crisis and he should never be allowed to hold public office again, says Paul Routledge

I support the doctors but ordinary people are affected by strike paralysis, unlike Tory ministers who go private, says Paul Routledge

They've gone out of fashion but a part-time help people grow up, says Paul Routledge

A public consultation is just a means of softening-up opinion, says Paul Routledge

Paul Routledge decided to go about tackling his 10ft-high white buddleia that had sprouted after the hot June and wet July but, after two hours, he was totally knackered

The Eris Covid strain is the latest cause for concern, Paul Routledge says, and with free booster jabs now ruled out for many aged 50-65, it looks like only the well-off will get protection this winter, when we all need access to a vaccine

They know what really happened that day in June 1985 at the height of the year-long miners’ strike. In 2016, then-Home Secretary Amber Rudd signalled her readiness for an inquiry

Paul Routledge says the letters being auctioned, written by Louise Harrison to a Beatles fan, show the type of common sense that sets men and women apart

Paul Routledge says we need better ideas in order to house migrants in the short term... and there are smarter ways to spend the £2billion currently going on hotel bedrooms

The PM showed his disregard for both medics and patients as he flew off on holiday, says Paul Routledge

Ticket office staff won't be redeployed on platforms like the rail firms claim, says Paul Routledge

Paul Routledge says his father Harry worked as a booking office clerk at the station in Normanton, West Yorks – famous for its marshalling yards and known as the Crewe of the Coalfields

Paul Routledge says the opportunity for MPs to have second jobs is limitless, and he is horrified by the Tories on telly, boring the nation and spouting nonsense

Voters will go to the polls in the Selby and Ainsty by-election on Thursday after MP Nigel Adams quit after failing to secure a peerage in outgoing PM Boris Johnson’s honours

Paul Routledge on the inexcusable rise of malnutrition in England, and how this all points to a return to Victorian times with cases of illnesses like scurvy and rickets on the up alongside Tory austerity

Nothing can do undo the rot in the Conservative Party, it's ingrained, says Paul Routledge

The Grade II-listed cinema first welcomed patrons on the eve of the Great War in 1914, when Charlie Chaplin was just beginning his career as a tramp

Both the Tories and Labour have suggested they will honour the state pension triple lock, despite the cost, says Paul Routledge

Mourners came from her immediate family and friends, and her much bigger family of local people who appreciated the relaxed, friendly atmosphere of her pub, the New Inn

The response to the stricken Titanic submersible is in stark contrast to the recent trawler tragedy off Greece, says Paul Routledge

The dispute that drags on is a stain on ministers who spend more time on Tory psychodramas than governance, says Paul Routledge