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

        Yesterday I called in at the consultation on the construction of new homes in Shinfield.         I raised several issues with the representatives of the developers. These included         whether they would build homes in a style which harmonised with the existing village, as their disp...

Residents of Paisley in west Scotland, where the former RBS chief executive was raised, are divided over the move to strip him of his knighthood

Extra money raised from settling disputes with big companies is unlikely to pacify Revenue critics

With HMS Dauntless and now Prince William gliding across the Atlantic to reinforce Britain's claim on the Falklands, there's no denying that tensions with Argentina have been raised. But let's not get carried away. As Admiral Sir John Woodward reminded us last week, the latest round of defence cuts rules out, or at least undermines, a British counter-invasion. The deployment of our ...

Well, at least we know now where some of that $ 1.2 billion in investor funds that's 'missing' went! According the Barack Obama's 2012 campaign website, Jon Corzine of Hoboken, New Jersey raised at least $500,000 for the president's reelection effort. Corzine, of course, has most recently been in the news for being on the wrong side of a $6.3 billion bet as head of MF Glob...

Chief executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland declines his bonus after Labour leader Ed Miliband raised the pressure by forcing a Commons vote

               When the government was working on a new policy for high pay and large bonuses I raised the issue of RBS. I raised it again when Dr Cable announced his policy in the Commons. People will judge the success of Dr Cable’s bid to control large bonuses in no small measure  by the government’s

As I've told you before, I listen to these things so you don't have to, and I've got a pretty strong stomach - but tonight's festivities were something else. A transcript is available here for those of you into self-mortification, but I'll go over the basics. First off, the speech was obviously very well rehearsed down to the last vocal inflection and raised eyebrow..in fa...

Orban prepared to drop a planned merger of the central bank and financial markets regulator, which had raised concerns over the bank’s independence