Interesting, that DUP, SDLP and UUP continue to ensure secrecy about their corporate donations: Sinn Féin MP for West Tyrone Pat Doherty has called for an end to the policy of keeping donations to political parties in the Six Counties secret. Mr Doherty has also called for the current threshold of £7500 for reportable donations to be

From Traditional Values Coalition $222.7 million in untraceable contributions October 2, 2008 – Newsmax.com reporter Ken Timmerman has conducted an investigation into the strange donations being given to the Obama campaign – including questionable donations from foreign sources. Most of the donations are under $200 – amounting to $222.7 million! Only $39.6 million comes from dono...

Sir Christopher said party donations should be capped at £10,000 and state funding increased to remove the taint of corruption. This after wibble about how large donations are seen to be for preferential access. Look, maybe donations do buy influence. Maybe the unions’ money gets them Labour MPs as lapdogs, just as hedge fund money

I always thought Osborne was a bit slimy. He really should have been a bit more careful and exposed himself to this. And yet in the debate about Party donations the Tories still insist on lumping in Union donations (the cleanest and transparent donations) with reform as Peter Lilley did on...

Two British soldiers have been killed in an explosion in Afghanistan. One of the soldiers was from the Light Dragoons, the other from the Parachute Regiment. The explosion took place while the soldiers were performing in Musa Qal'eh, in Helmand Province.

The Conservatives received the most donations - more than £4m - in the first three months of 2009, figures show.

Wendy Alexander was advised that donations to her Scottish Labour leadership campaign should be declared, it emerges.

A roadside bomb exploded in eastern Turkey on Monday, killing nine soldiers who were on their way back from an operation against Kurdish rebels, an official said. Two other soldiers were wounded.

It was a very bad weekend for U.S. Soldiers in the Kunar Province of Afghanistan.  A combat outpost in the Kunar Province has sustained heavy fighting with the Taliban, and nine U.S. Soldiers have been killed, while fifteen were wounded (along with four Afghan troops).  What can we learn from the deaths of nine Soldiers?  We'll

A Conservative scourge of trade unions for "shoddy fundraising practices" in bankrolling Labour has been caught out by the Electoral Commission for failing to declare £155,000 worth of donations over of the last four years. Jonathan Djanogly, the shadow solicitor general, did not declare donations going back to 2004 from his own law firm, S J Berwin, to provide him with a trainee solicitor t...