Yesterday’s Press Gazette  highlights that the Panorama programme broadcast, entitled Secrets of the Tory Billionaire, on Monday night may help the Independent defend the libel case brought against it by Lord Ashcroft. In a development that you couldn’t make up, the Independent, in its own coverage of the programme,  referred to Lord Ashdown when talking

In an article at American Thinker John Ziegler presents his "Six Dirty Secrets of Presidential Politics" that he believes exist in general, and for the 2012 presidential election in particular! According to Ziegler, these are some basic tenets of presidential politics that are critical to understand in order to understand the process. Things that the mainstream media along with political operative...

Latest filings reveal interesting differences in their preferences, according to the Open Secrets website

"Open-source intelligence has always been crucial, but for most of the cold war it was neglected by western intelligence agencies," says Calder Walton, a research associate at Cambridge University and author of the book Empire of Secrets, to be published in 2013. "That was the archetypal intelligence war: intelligence necessarily involved information that couldn't be gained from any other sou...

When Lord Mandelson said Labour was "intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich" he may have been talking about himself.

Political speech writers share some secrets of how to write good - and bad - material for leaders as they look back over some of the lines from previous prime ministers.

Mass interception of entire populations is not only a reality, it is a secret new industry spanning 25 countries. It sounds like something out of Hollywood, but as of today, mass interception systems, built by Western intelligence contractors, including for ’political opponents’ are a reality.  Today WikiLeaks began releasing a database of hundreds of documents from as many a...

David Cameron will be forced to reveal more details about the refurbishment of his flat in Downing Street after a ruling by the information watchdog.

The reported discovery of a previously unknown complex in Syria has raised UN suspicions that Damascus collaborated with Abdul Qadeer Khan, the architect of Pakistan's nuclear bomb project, to obtain nuclear technology for a covert weapons programme.

It will be harder to "get to the truth" about Tony Blair's dealings with Gaddafi's regime following the Libyan tyrant's death, it was claimed on Thursday.