Expenses crackdown: the wife-swapping solution

The Mole: MPs' wives could work for each others' husbands to get round secretary ban

The man who invented the London libel industry

The scourge of Private Eye is back in spirit - and the Guardian is the target

Gagging order throws light on Trafigura

Oil trader brings attention to its activities with its attempts to silence the Guardian

Duncan apolgises after foul-mouthed expenses outburst

Tory was filmed claiming MPs are 'treated like shit' and must 'live on rations' after the expenses scandal

Expenses scandal: new laws collapse

Post-expenses legislation proposed by Jack Straw is falling apart

Labour get their Speaker: Tory Bercow

But with some Conservatives saying he’s too left wing, he could be out after the next general election

Exclusive: Beckett for Speaker

According to sources in the Labour Party, Margaret Beckett is ‘all but’ confirmed for the Speaker’s chair

Are British MPs underpaid?

If we paid our MPs as much as politicians are paid abroad, then the expenses scandal could have been avoided

Speaker Michael Martin finally bows to increasing pressure and quits

Who made him jump? It won’t have been the press, whom he despised