I have been following this minor scandal via Instapundit. This to make clear that I am engaged in the study of American political culture, rather than wallowing in trivial scandal like wot you might of thought. There are two things I don't understand. In this video (excellent snark by Real Clear Politics: they have chosen the perfect excerpt to present without comment), the question and answe...

Never mind the problems with the athletes’ accomodation blocks, the real scandal has been the exploitation of building workers, with large sums of money set aside by law for welfare that has simply gone missing: New Delhi, Sep 10 – The Supreme Court Friday slammed the central government and states for their failure to implement two

Purge the professionals and let party democracy breathe This meltdown creates opportunities as well as dangers. But more than technocratic fixes, we need real political choice Seumas Milne guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 20 May 2009 21.30 What started as a political scandal has tipped over into a full-blown ­crisis of Britain's entire political system. There's no doubt that the Commons Spe...

It's easy to oversell the talk of change. Brown can make a real difference, however, by ensuring MPs get a real mandate Two rival interpretations are emerging of the ­lasting political meaning of the expenses firestorm. The first says that, although the scandal washes through all the parties, this will essentially be the last large nail in the coffin of an already terminally unpopular Lab...

The McBride scandal is no doubt a watershed in political blogging and its resonance in political discourse, primarily because without Guido Fawkes, the story wouldn’t have been made public. I for one have been agnostic as to the real impact of blogging in general, but I couldn’t help but look to reconsider that view in light of it.

It was good to hear Derek Conway yesterday. He was quite right. His son was paid as a part-timer on the lowest point of the lowest quartile, and yet look what happened. Whereas Jacqui Smith's husband is paid as a full-timer on the highest quartile despite doing nothing more than keep the constituency house in which she claims not to live anyway. Yet look what has not happened. The real scandal exp...

Why was it accusations of sexual impropriety that wrecked Herman Cain’s presidential bid and not his political ignorance?

The suffix "gate" gets overused in politics and political media. Every minor embarrassment or cock up gets the word gate appended to it.Even the least tuned-in to political history will know that the use of "gate" comes from the Watergate scandal that engulfed Nixon in the 1970s. I won't go into the details of the Watergate scandal, you can read about it here, but it grew out of a desperate

Donations to political parties have risen sharply despite the wave of public anger at MPs following the expenses scandal latest figures have revealed.

Profile: Charlie Gordon has enjoyed the highs and endured the lows of a career in politics that has seen him move from kingpin in a resurgent Glasgow to the centre of a political financial scandal in the space of a few years.