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Tory MEP and the Kazakhs

01.10.09
What a strange contradiction Tory MEP Struan Stevenson is. On the one hand he has visited Kazakhstan on no fewer than 10 separate occasions to investigate the effects of Soviet-era nuclear explosions on the inhabitants there... ... more

WORLD: Lord Black fails in bid for bail

11.08.09
Disgraced peer Lord Conrad Black will remain in jail pending an appeal over his fraud conviction, US Supreme Court rules... more

Andrew Roberts is the social historian

05.08.09
For all his partying with friends in high places, Andrew Roberts has an insatiable thirst for work. Here we pin down the bestseller about town... more

Tom Bower has the last laugh

24.07.09
Biographer Tom Bower has vanquished press baron Richard Desmond. Stephen Robinson watched the courtroom libel drama unfold... more

Newspaper tycoon tells business associate 'I will be your worst f***ing enemy'

20.07.09
Richard Desmond demanded £75,000 from business associate by saying: 'I am the worst f***ing enemy you will ever have,' the High Court heard... more

Two rival press barons, an author and a question of pornography

15.07.09
Newspaper boss Richard Desmond told a jury that he objected to being called a pornographer in his libel action against Conrad Black's biographer, Tom Bower ... more

Conrad Black wants to get out of jail ahead of appeal

23.06.09
Conrad Black, the convicted fraud and former owner of the Daily Telegraph, has applied to be released from his Florida jail while he launches an appeal to the US Supreme Court against his conviction... more

Boris joins Time's power list with help from Conrad Black

30.04.09
Boris Johnson's global reach was underlined when he was named in the Time 100, the US magazine's list of the world's most influential people... more

These expenses scams violate the spirit of the law – and MPs know it

07.04.09
It may not be fraud but as accusations of diddling the taxpayer reach the top of government we are owed more than excuses from those we elect... more

My prison life by Conrad Black: Tutoring, piano practice and coffee with friends

03.03.09
Former newspaper tycoon Conrad Black has told friends his first year in a US prison has been surprisingly pleasant... more

Lobbying baroness accused of breaching Lords rules

02.02.09
The £180,000 chief executive of business lobbying group London First said she was "unashamed" after being dragged into the "peers for hire" furore... more

Sleaze claims against Labour peers must be probed, says Brown

26.01.09
Sleaze allegations against four Labour peers are “very serious” and need to be investigated, Gordon Brown said... more

Conrad Black's partner in $60m fraud leaves prison

16.12.08
The former business partner of disgraced media tycoon Conrad Black has walked free from a Canadian prison after serving 10 months of his 29-month sentence... more

Black still lording it in jail with a butler and lectures on his life to inmates

20.08.08
Conrad Black is lecturing fellow prisoners about his own life under the guise of a course on American history... more

There's only one Etonian Dave's MPs should read

05.08.08
So much for social diversity. David Cameron has given his MPs a summer reading list of 37 titles, which includes a book by his Etonian contemporary David Runciman, a memoir by Cameron's OE cousin Ferdinand Mount, and no fewer than two books about another famous OE, Boris Johnson... more

The gamblers sniffing a profit in the downturn

21.07.08
As the economic crisis deepens, hedge funds increasingly call the shots - and that spells trouble for Alistair Darling... more

Lee Jasper: I'll fight to gain Kate Hoey seat

07.05.08
Former mayoral aide Lee Jasper makes an audacious bid for a safe Labour seat in the capital ... more

Chairmen's pay on rocket fuel - and not just at BP

15.04.08
Fat-cat pay, or executive remuneration as they call it in the posher papers, is so last century... more

Cameron: Arrogant Ken is siding with extremists

04.03.08
Tory leader David Cameron has accused Mayor Ken Livingstone of siding with extremists... more

Livingstone attacks 'George W Boris' over climate U-turns

29.02.08
Ken Livingstone described Boris Johnson as "George W Boris" as he unveiled Labour's attack lines against the Tories in the mayoral election... more

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