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The Liam Fox affair is a matter for David Hare not the PM

11.10.11
So where are we supposed to rank the Liam Fox affair? Is it Profumo, in which national defence is endangered by blurring the line between love and war? Or is it a matter for the zealous new Bribery Act? Is it Whitewater? Is it Watergate?... more

Dozens of new Lib-Con peers to ‘rebalance’ House of Lords

17.05.10
Dozens of Conservative and Liberal Democrat peers are to be created to 'rebalance' the Lords after the election... more

Stanley Fink: Tory treasurer, hedge fund manager and charity-giver

12.05.10
Business interview Stanley Fink prepares to host the annual ARK dinner, London’s biggest money-raising bash ... more

The depressing truth is that we must fund party campaigns

22.03.10
City Editor's Comment: The general election campaign is underway and already the political arguments are being lost in a welter of accusations and counter-accusations about the sources of each party’s campaign donations... more

Egos, gaffes and hissy fits - the art of diplomacy

25.09.09
It is a world where power and hierarchy usually count for more than ideas, where status and symbolism trump genuine dialogue... more

Tories have a ball as Labour donor bankrolls their night at Annabel’s

06.02.09
Restaurant millionaire Richard Caring, who has financed the Labour Party, has started donating to the Conservatives... more

The Rabbi has a point but Otto is no Fagin

18.11.08
A leading London rabbi, Yitzhak Schochet of Mill Hill United Synagogue, has suggested that there are anti-Semitic elements in David Hare's new play, Gethsemane. Are there? ... more

Mr Osborne has failed the Mrs Merton test

22.10.08
The Deripaska story has bitter lessons for the shadow chancellor - and his Labour rival... more

Finance

08.10.08
Britain will look to the Square Mile to pull it out of the economic mire, and these are the big names who will deliver the recovery. ... more

Spot the Labour plot in Hare's new play

13.08.08
A play which appears to mirror financial crises which engulfed Tony Blair's administration is to open at the National Theatre... more

Unfair to give LSE a rough ride

23.05.08
The London Stock Exchange is far and away the most powerful stock exchange in Europe, and one of the world's top three... more

New Labour: no longer a party, just a soap opera

14.05.08
Revelations in the memoirs of Cherie Blair and John Prescott, added to fresh internal feuds, are eating away at the authority of the Government... more

Steer clear of tanned, touchy-feely types

29.04.08
Carole Caplin, a one-time topless model, was befriended by an exhausted Cherie Blair so that she could realign her chakras and facilitate discounts with obscure designers.... more

Cameron ally's hedge fund closes after SEC complaint

26.03.08
Pentagon Capital Management becomes the latest to fall victim to the credit crunch... more

Bremner, Blair and Brecht

20.03.07
Britain's favourite satirist says he's given up on the Prime Minister, taken up translating for the stage and is not sorry that he made a fool of Margaret Beckett.... more


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