The business dealings of former Conservative Party Deputy Chairman and one of its biggest donors, Lord Ashcroft, are back in the news again. As The Observer reports: Fresh revelations have raised a series of questions about the links between the former Conservative deputy chairman Lord Ashcroft and a company responsible for luxury projects across a

The Conservatives demand answers about links between the Labour Party and the chief executive of a charity facing allegations of financial mismanagement.

That can mean only one thing! It's time for the weekly nominations at the Watcher's Council! But before we get to the nominations, for the first timers here is an explanation of who and what the Watcher's Council is. The Watcher's Council is a long-standing group of 15 conservative bloggers from around the world and the winner of the 2011 Fabulous 50 Blog Award in the category ...

Kevan Jones MP, Labour’s Shadow Defence Minister, responding to reports that Sir Philip Mawer, David Cameron’s independent advisor on ministerial interests, was frustrated not to have been asked to investigate Adam Werritty’s links to Liam Fox, said:

Sino-Israeli economic links can be very weird: The young women, with diverse educational backgrounds and professions ranging from finance to circus acrobatics and runway modeling, are competing for an opportunity to have further training at the International Security Academy in...

Gingrich super-Pac links Romney to Damon, a medical testing company that was fined $119m for defrauding Medicare

Tom Clougherty has an interesting graph up at the ASI blog, taken from this McKinsey report, of the movement in combined public and private debt for the ten biggest of the world's national economies, from 1990 until now. Follow either of the above two links to get a bigger and more legible version of this graph: Since 2008, of course, all have lurched upwards from wherever they were to quite ...

Telegraph View: If Britain is to build trade links with emerging economic powers, it must stop dithering and commit to airport expansion.

Recently Sheffield Hallam student Richard O’Dwyer lost his court case against extradition to the USA for running a website that provided links to websites where users could illegally pirate copyrighted TV material. He will be lodging an appeal with the High Court and he cannot be extradited without the specific permission of the Home Secretary

A new study commissioned by the Norwegian Foreign Ministry shows economic links to the EU have a “huge democratic deficit”, paving the way for a reshuffling of Norway’s agreements through the European Economic Area (EEA) at a time fellow member Iceland is holding EU accession talks. More »