Tag: Scandal
Matheson – How will Labour cope with his ill-judged indiscretion?
By G.A.Ponsonby If 2012 was a bad year for Alex Salmond then 2013 hasn’t got off to the best of starts for his...
At the scandal-ridden BBC, life is just one big party
By Kenneth Roy A feature of the still unfolding BBC crisis which has been little noticed is the importance of parties in the conduct...
BBC will suffer “lasting damage” over Savile scandal claims poll
By G.A.Ponsonby The BBC’s reputation has been badly damaged by the shocking revelations surrounding the Jimmy Savile child abuse scandal, according to a...
Ex PM Brown urged to back-up own calls for expenses transparency
By Bob Duncan Ex Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown is under pressure to support full disclosure of the secret £115,000 annual expenses routinely claimed...
Lloyds becomes latest British bank to be implicated in Libor rigging...
By Martin Kelly A second British bank has been implicated in the Libor rate rigging scandal after explosive documents were released by US authorities...
Diamond resigns as leaked document turns spotlight on Brown and Darling
By a Newsnet reporter The Labour party is facing claims that it sanctioned the manipulation of LIBOR rates in 2008 after leaked documents...
Calls for Labour to come clean on LIBOR scandal as RBS...
By G.A.Ponsonby The Labour party is facing calls to clarify what its senior Ministers knew of the LIBOS rate rigging scandal, which occurred when...
Failure to regulate banking scandal ‘made in Downing Street’, says SNP...
By Andrew Barr The Westminster government were the “co-authors” of the Barclays banking scandal due to “catastrophic” regulation failures, SNP Westminster Treasury spokesperson Stewart...
Iranian president engulfed in bank scandal
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been drawn into Iran’s biggest bank scandal after a parliamentary commission investigating the fraud announced they were investigating his office...
New Expenses Scandals Rock Labour
The Labour party were today reeling after being hit by a series of new expenses revelations involving its MPs. It has emerged that Labour...