Stephen Newton's diary of sorts

Liam Fox supporters keen to rehabilitate the former defence secretary, like poor old Louise Mensch, suffered a set back today when former ministerial standards watchdog Sir Philip Mawer belated ‘mauled the prime minister’ at a select committee he...

Tory MP Louise Mensch, née Bagshawe’s, performance on Have I Got News for You this weekend, will probably be best remembered for assertion that protesters occupying the City of London who have bought coffee from Starbucks should not be listen...

In a remarkable aside in today’s Sunday Telegraph Amanda Bowman, chief executive of Atlantic Bridge Inc., is quoted as describing her organisation’s UK charity as a ‘shell game’. So how did this confidence trick work and who w...

In a clear act of cowardice, the Conservative Party has moved to scapegoat Ursula Brennan, permanent under secretary at the Ministry of Defence, in order to protect the prime minister from scrutiny in the wake of Dr Liam Fox’s resignation. But I ca...

When the war against Colonel Gaddifi began back in March, I put my money on the mad dictator. It’s good to see today that I was wrong and that on this occasion David Cameron was right to push it through. Although it would have been better if Gadd...

As a former chair of the Charity Commission renews her call for a full investigation of Liam Fox’s Atlantic Bridge, the Financial Times has reported that major donor Michael Hintze had to bail the charity out after it was hit by an unexpected tax b...

Predictably, Sir Gus O’Donnell’s ten page report into the Fox-Werritty scandal has failed to silence any critics. As I reported yesterday, it does not examine the Atlantic Bridge and others will have many more questions to ask. While Atlantic Bri...