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Politics is corruption, apparently

Everyone’s against corruption these days.  That’s certainly a theme that unites recent mass protests in countries ranging from Bahrain through China, Egypt, Iraq, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Pakistan,...

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Bastards or B’stards?

According to a 2009 Eurobarometer survey 62 per cent of Britons believed that ‘the giving and taking of bribes, and the abuse of positions of power for personal gain’ was ‘widespread’ amongst MPs....

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The EU’s seven year itch

The ‘seven year itch’ usually refers to married life rather than relations between member states in an enlarged European Union (EU). But it’s now seven years since the first post-communist states of...

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The News of the World and corruption

The issues raised by the exposure of phone hacking on the News of the World should not be seen as of purely parochial interest, of relevance only to the UK. For it’s more or less received wisdom...

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Introducing ‘Hannibal Lector in drag’

In the week that saw the much-publicised exit of Silvio Berlusconi from power amid allegations of corruption, trouble was also brewing further afield. Ex-president of the Philippines, Gloria Macapagal...

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‘More what you’d call “guidelines” than actual rules’: Jeremy Hunt and the...

Jeremy Hunt, the UK’s Culture Secretary, remains under fire for his handling of his ‘quasi-judicial’ role in deciding whether News Corp, Rupert Murdoch’s media company, could take full ownership of...

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Seeing is not believing: how people see corruption in the UK

Image by Lonpicman How can we tell how serious the problem of public service corruption is in any given country? If you live in the UK, you might – if we believe Transparency International’s new...

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Are Political Finance Regulations Helping to Combat Party Corruption in...

  As has been repeatedly stated, money is the main fuel of politics. Without it political parties cannot function, elections cannot take place, and democracy – at least as we know it – cannot exist. It...

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