Paul Routledge
Articles by Paul Routledge
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Film
Back to mine
- 03 September 2009
From Yorkshire to Somerset, the coal industry once employed a million men and was the lifeblood of hundreds of communities. A new season of films preserve the memory of a lost era
UK Politics
The unforgiven
- 26 February 2009
- 8 comments
It is impossible to convey to outsiders or the young why Margaret Thatcher is loathed, to this day, writes Paul Routledge. Her regime began and ended in violence, and during her 11 years in power she obliterated entire communities
Books
Embrace of strangers
- 16 October 2008
- 7 comments
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of "The Great Railway Bazaar" Paul Theroux Hamish Hamilton, 496pp, £20
Politics
A year in politics
- 19 December 2005
As Blair's revolution limps into its final stage, writers are asking where it all went wrong
UK Politics
Rogues' gallery
- 04 July 2005
Mug Shots Martin Rowson Politico's, 144pp, £25 ISBN 1842750658
Politics
Our man in Blackburn
- 28 March 2005
Paul Routledge meets the ex-ambassador who wants to bring down the Foreign Secretary
Society
NS Profile - Alan Johnson
- 29 November 2004
- 3 comments
He was orphaned in childhood and doesn't have an O-level to his name. Could this former union baron become the next PM? Alan Johnson is profiled
Books
Behind the times
- 18 October 2004
Gordon Brown Tom Bower HarperCollins, 492pp, £20 ISBN 000717540X Off Whitehall Derek Scott I B Tauris, 272pp, £18.95
