Even a general election could not shorten the expenses crisis’s shadow. The Telegraph has the scoop that David Laws apparently abused the second home allowance between 2006 and 2009, claiming tens of thousands of pounds for rooms owned by his long-term partner. MPs have been banned from leasing accommodation from their partners since 2006. Spice is added to the scandal in that Laws escaped e...

The scandal that there are no grammar schools, though on the German Gymnasium model, thereby avoiding the crudity of the 11-plus. (And the scandal that there are no O-levels for the most academic pupils once they get there.) The scandal that there are no technical schools, of which there were never anything like as many as there should have been. The scandal that the special schools are still in t...

In 2006 an election year, the Democrats were still trying to lay the Enron scandal on Bush and the Republicans. With the help of the press a cover up of a larger financial scandal was taking place. A scandal that we are paying for today. In 2006 a 3 year investigation into fraud at Fannie Mae was concluded. It revealed a level of financial misconduct by Franklin Raines, Jamie Gorelick, and others ...

THE expenses scandal claimed another casualty last night, as a Treasury minister resigned from the government amid allegations that she avoided paying up to £17,000 of tax

As Republicans and Democrats squabble over who is most corrupt, the American people become more cynical about the entire political class.

It appears that we might be in for a bumper week. First the Sunday Times magisterially skewers the Trade DG through its Insight team. Now I am hearing of a new scandal. This time to do with the Humanitarian Aid budget. No details are available yet, but MEPs on the Budgetary Control Committee have been invited to apply to view a document in the infamous secret reading room of the Parliament. The do...

A scandal in Italy: A scandal in the United Kingdom:

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.

A scandal involving sex and money is unsettling Northern Ireland's Protestant community, threatening a fragile political accord with its Roman Catholic rivals

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