Tariq Ali on the Pakistan cricket scandal: The mood in Pakistan is bitter, angry and vengeful. Effigies of Salman Butt have been burned, his name has been painted on donkeys and the no-ball bowlers are being violently abused all over...
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This week, for one week only, we are making this week’s magazine available to non-subscribers online, courtesy of Saab 95 Saloon. Click here to access the best written magazine in the English language, featuring Fraser Nelson’s and Bruce Anderson’s verdicts on the Blair memoirs, Ed Smith and Roger Alton on cricket’s latest betting scandal, as well as Taki and Joan Co...
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Tony Blair lambasted Gordon Brown in his memoir as a manipulative bully who blackmailed him over the cash for honours scandal and lost a winnable election by abandoning the policies of New Labour.
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Tony Blair details the cash for honours scandal in A Journey, criticising the unfair way in which the lives of his aides were damaged.
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A hospital has made secret compensation payouts to victims of misdiagnosis in a scandal over "botched" cancer care.
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The doctor at the centre of 'Bloodgate' said her name would always be associated with the rugby scandal but told a disciplinary hearing she was '100 per cent confident nothing like this would ever happen again'
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FT on 26th Aug 2010 (via ft.com)
The new parliament has drawn its teeth but the MPs’ expenses scandal continues. Throughout June and July, Westminster rumbled with aggravation about IPSA. There were whispers of MPs flying off the handle at IPSA staff; yesterday brought concrete reports of outright threats and intimidation. The accounts in this morning’s press are shaming, even by the standards of this saga of pornos a...
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Spectator on 26th Aug 2010 (via spectator.co.uk)
Vanessa Perroncel, the French model at the centre of the John Terry sex scandal has attacked the use of legal gagging orders to prevent the press reporting details of footballers' private lives.
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Telegraph on 22nd Aug 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Konstantin Kosachev, president of the foreign affairs committee in the Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, warned Romania that a spiralling spy scandal could have political and economic repercussions, the press in Bucharest wrote yesterday (19 August).
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EurActiv on 20th Aug 2010 (via euractiv.com)
It’s Friday, so here’s a fistful of lists that sum up the past week on Liberal Democrat Voice: 5 most-read stories on LDV this week 1. Opinion: why we should wish Labour well (99) by George Kendall 2. Tory MP in Commons sex party “scandal” (14) by The Voice 3. The Miliband campaigning house parties
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 20th Aug 2010 (via libdemvoice.org)