Baroness Uddin, the Labour peer, has been cleared of any wrongdoing over her expenses claims.
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Telegraph 2 hours ago (via telegraph.co.uk)
THREE Labour MPs and a Conservative peer told a judge yesterday they will use a 320-year-old law to argue they should not be prosecuted over the expenses scandal.
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Scotsman 14 hours ago (via news.scotsman.com)
As if the healthcare debate could not get any more difficult, Democrats are coping with a series of ethical controversies, writes Anna Fifield
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FT 1 day ago (via traxfer.ft.com)
As Republicans and Democrats squabble over who is most corrupt, the American people become more cynical about the entire political class.
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Spiked 3 days ago (via spiked-online.com)
You'd think that after the revelations globally about child abuse within the Catholic Church that you've heard everything. Not so, new allegations are surfacing in Germany regarding their 'boys only boarding schools'. The first accusers came forward a month ago in Berlin. Since then, the list of schools and victims who say they were scarred and haunted by alleged abuses has gro...
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TheCynicalDragon on 7th Mar 2010 (via cynicaldragon.com)
MPs are seeking to water down attempts to reform their allowances following the expenses scandal by complaining that they could be left with 'major cash flow problems'.
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Telegraph on 5th Mar 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
MPs have backed a series of reforms aimed at strengthening Parliament, recommended after the expenses scandal.
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BBCPolitics on 4th Mar 2010 (via news.bbc.co.uk)
MPs will vote tomorrow on an amendment to the Government’s resolutions on the reform of Parliament, put forward by Evan Harris MP on behalf of the Wright Committee. (Select Committee on Reform of the House of Commons.) The Wright Committee was set up as a response to the expenses scandal in 2009 to make recommendations on
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 3rd Mar 2010 (via libdemvoice.org)
Oh, dear. The Ego has finally landed. George Galloway thinks he's on a Mossad hit list.There can be no more crawling to the Israel lobby who mobilise thousands of sycophants to complain every time people like me write or broadcast items like this, hoping to intimidate editors and proprietors into putting a lid on criticism of Israel. It usually works. It frightened the BBC into the scandal of...
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TheCynicalDragon on 26th Feb 2010 (via cynicaldragon.com)
Victims of the thalidomide scandal will be given extra help through a £3.4 million fund announced by Scottish ministers.
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Telegraph on 26th Feb 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)