Nine bids were put forward to host the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cups. The bids that received the best technical reports from FIFA – the best bids, objectively the best, the bids that would have won if the IOC had been judging – were England for 2018 and Australia for 2022. The two bids [...]
Filed under: corruption, football, middle east, russia, sleaze, southafrica, sport on December 9th, 2010 | No Comments »
The serialisation of Lord Mandelson’s memoirs, eerily entitled The Third Man, in The Times has attracted the expected attention of the Westminster world. Despite the enhanced level of detail contained within the dark reaches of Lord Mandelson’s book concerning the Blair-Brown feud—barely scandalous after thirteen years of New Labour—Lord Mandelson’s account of his former government [...]
Filed under: corruption, gordonbrown, ukpolitics on July 14th, 2010 | No Comments »
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The messy aftermath of Peter Hain’s resignation will not clear for sometime. Hain has fallen on his sorry sword for not declaring 17 donations in his deputy leadership campaign in time, a feat Gordon Brown disparagingly referred to as “incompetence”. But expect more swords to be self-sharpened in the coming [...]
Filed under: corruption, jackprevezer, labour, ukpolitics on January 25th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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Tuesday 12th February – 8.45pm
Sir Philip Mawer is currently the Prime Minister’s Independent Adviser on Ministers’ Interests and was from 2002 - 2007 the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards. Dubbed by the press the ‘Commons sleaze buster’ Sir Philip was entrusted with arguably one of the toughest jobs [...]
Filed under: clarepoliticsnews, corruption, sirphilipmawer, sleaze, ukpolitics on January 21st, 2008 | 2 Comments »
