Conservatives
Labour’s bad boys – Part 21 Dan Norris
Dan Norris was the MP for Wansdyke from 1997 to 2010. In 2021 he was elected as Mayor of the West of England until his arrest in April 2025. In the 2024 GE he defeated [more…]
Fraud
Engineering
YooKay2026…… A State broken by Corruption (Part 5)
In July 2017, four joint ventures were awarded HS2 civil contracts worth a combined £6.6 billion. The original structure was a target-cost contract with a pain/gain share, meaning that if costs overran, the contractor would [more…]
Politics
YooKay2026…… A State broken by Corruption (Part 4)
The revolving door describes one route through the system. There is another. Between 2013 and 2023, 68 of the 284 peers nominated by party leaders were political donors, giving a combined £58 million. Fifteen of sixteen [more…]
Conservatives
Labour’s bad boys – Part 20 Rushanara Ali
Another import from the Sylhet District of Bangladesh. We’ve already had an article on Tulip Siddiq and an honourable mention for Baroness Uddin in the expenses scandal, now we turn our attention to Rushanara Ali. [more…]
Politics
YooKay2026…… A State broken by Corruption (Part 3)
In each of the 438 quangos described in Part 2, someone decides who sits on the boards, who chairs the committees, and who approves the contracts. Look closely at who those people are and a [more…]
Conservatives
Labour’s bad boys – Part 19 Crayons
If the PM and his Deputy are on the make then we can expect an epidemic of fiddling among their minions. Angela Rayner has been the MP for Ashton-under-Lyne since 2015. Having left school at [more…]
Communism
Labour’s bad boys – Part 18 Andrew Gwynne
Andrew John Gwynne is the MP for Gorton and Denton. He was suspended in 2025 because of offensive messages he had written on WhatsApp, In 1996 he was elected to Tameside Council and has done [more…]
Politics
YooKay2026…… A State broken by Corruption (Part 2)
Almost a third of all government spending, £391 billion a year, is not spent by government departments. It is spent by 438 separate publicly funded bodies that ministers cannot direct, Parliament cannot easily scrutinise, and voters [more…]
Communism
Labour’s bad boys – Part 17 Keith and his freebies
We are still in 2024 and this story caused quite a commotion when it broke. Who among us has ever turned down a gift. Aside from Xmas and birthdays I don’t remember ever getting a [more…]