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 »

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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 »