An extra £23 million a year of taxpayers' money should be used to fund political parties as part of an effort to clean up the system, a sleaze watchdog has recommended.

A couple of weeks ago I reported here on the controversy surrounding a planning application in Southwark, objected to by the Ministry of Sound, a donor to the local Lib Dems. The BBC’s coverage of the story felt partial, fixated on alleging ‘no smoke without fire’ political sleaze, failing to question whether they were being

Former Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher talks to Newsnight about the coalition government, voting and political sleaze.

Neither the idiot-abroad UK defence secretary nor scandal-mongering critics seem able to separate important public issues from personal sleaze.

Even Pravda-on-the Hudson can't tolerate the smell around this guy. This review, entitled 'Sarah Palin Could See This Guy From Her House' says it all: Mr. McGinnis, who has been writing best sellers since “The Selling of the President” in 1969, starts this book by affecting a gee-whiz attitude about his amazing new digs. (“Forty years in the business and I’ve...

THE parliamentary sleaze watchdog has rejected a call to investigate former Downing Street spin chief Andy Coulson over allegations that he failed to declare income from News

Guido is uncharacteristically gentle with the now-ex Cameron groupie Peter Oborne when he deserves much worse, and not just because Oborne's rose-tinted specs only seem to come out the case with MPs from a certain demographic. Oborne is shocked - shocked - to find sleaze going on here, but who was hiding that from Petey in the first place? On the contrary, Oborne spent years writing about the ques...

The year began and ended for Labour with talk of a coup, was defined by a lost election and a bruising leadership contest and punctuated by regular outbreaks of sleaze.

MPs must not go back to the system of self-policing which led to the expenses scandal, the country's top sleaze watchdog has said.

Now that the Cenotaph sleaze has been identified as Charlie 'Comfortably Scum' Gilmore, we can at least dispose of one myth about the university system. No, the problem is not just folks at Fulchester Uni doing degrees in surfing. In so far as Gilmore is an Oxbridge student, he's supposedly as good as it gets. And yes, in so far as Oxbridge is apparently struggling with the difficult question of w...