Lord Ashcroft hides in toilets to avoid questions on tax – video
Paradise Papers
Lord Ashcroft used offshore trust to shelter wealth while Tory peer
September 2016
British Airways flight struggles to land on St Helena runway – video
St Helena islanders want compensation over unusable new £285m airport
August 2016
Belize offshore secrecy ill at ease with UK politics and US authorities
Lord Ashcroft's Belize bank hit by wave of withdrawals
June 2016
The Guardian view on policing elections: harder, but no less important
Editorial: Vote-harvesting and micro-targeting make it more and more difficult to monitor election spending accurately. But it is essential to get it right
May 2016
Nearly two-thirds of voters think UK will remain in EU, Ashcroft poll finds
Tory peer’s research reveals sharp divisions in voting intentions of young and old, and by party affiliation
March 2016
Sweet revenge – a dish best served in a memoir
As Salman Rushdie’s ex-wife Padma Lakshmi exposes details of their marriage, we look at other dirt-dishing tales
December 2015
G2 quiz of 2015
Frankie Boyle’s quiz of 2015
Which public figure looks like a moustache drawn on an extended middle finger? Who was behind the ‘pig-gate’ allegations? Can you spot a fake grime star? The comedian and columnist lays down a caustic end of year challenge ...
November 2015
Effigy of David Cameron and pig's head to burn at Lewes Bonfire night display
Wooden model of naked prime minister with animal’s head follows claims of dining club initiation in book by Lord Ashcroft
October 2015
Lord Ashcroft misses David Cameron biography launch due to serious illness
Critical eye
Book reviews roundup: Call Me Dave; Margaret Thatcher: The Authorised Biography, Volume Two; The Gap of Time
Digested read
Call Me Dave by Michael Ashcroft and Isabel Oakeshott – digested read
Media Monkey
Isabel Oakeshott runs squealing from David Cameron #piggate claims
Call Me Dave by Michael Ashcroft and Isabel Oakeshott review – a pig in a poke
Guardian Opinion cartoon
Steve Bell on David Cameron’s conference speech – cartoon
Cameron ignored high-level warnings about Andy Coulson, Ashcroft claims
Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
Today at the Conservative party conference – as it happened
The Guardian view on the Conservative conference: Tories should enjoy the moment