GLASGOW City Council has banned its arm's-length firms from giving public money to political parties after Scotland on Sunday revealed one had ploughed thousands into Labo

British politics must seem very strange to an outside looking in. For example, what can they make of the activities of people like Charlie Whelan, and Lord Pearson of Rannoch, the leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party. Lets take Mr Whelan first. He is Political Director of the 'Unite' trade union, and close advisor to the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown. Despite this, he seems int...

The designer gloves are off in the battle of the political leaders' wives. Miriam Clegg, the wife of Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader, has taken a swipe at Samantha Cameron for enjoying the "luxury" of being able to abandon her job for the election campaign.

Senior MPs and former cabinet ministers have been caught up in a sting operation exposing the way companies can buy political influence.

The Straight Choice is an online collection of election literature from across the country, aiming “to create a live visualization of the flood of party political leaflets as they are delivered across the country during an election campaign”. Whilst the origins of the name may grate with those Lib Dems who don’t wholly accept

Everyone has been guessing at what Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats would do if the voters return a hung parliament after the next election. The Lib Dem leader has sent all kinds of mixed signals. But if there is one person worth listening on the party’s intentions it is Julian Astle, the head of CentreForum, Britain’s leading Liberal think-tank, and a former political advisor to P...

The political author Anthony Seldon tells Neil Tweedie why the nation still has lingering doubts about David Cameron as the date for an election approaches .

Tanya Gold attends the UKIP conference in Milton Keynes and finds it part political meeting, part carnival.

I never saw this, but it seems like an intriguing project: The dilemma that faces historians and other chroniclers of World War II is, obviously, that the World War II generation is passing very quickly. First person narratives and eyewitness experience aren't the only ways to approach either history or political science, but they can be quite important. At the same time, the massive volume o...

Britain's political parties are flinging mud at each other instead of getting down to the urgent task of engaging in a serious debate about what needs to be done to cut the deficit