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Politics and government
Documented profile covering 17 controversies, including “David Emerson's move from Liberals to Conservative Cabinet and ethics investigation” and “Calling an early election in 2008 despite fixed-date election legislation”.
17 controversies · 27 sources
Politics and government
Documented profile covering 17 controversies, including “Axovant: high-risk gamble, acquisition of intepirdine and record IPO” and “Intepirdine Phase III failure and collapse of Axovant shares”.
17 controversies · 24 sources
Politics and government
Documented profile covering 16 controversies, including “Tax fraud accusation against Florence Woerth: defamation trial, acquittal then withdrawal after apology” and “SeaFrance: civil judgment over describing former executives as 'fraudsters'”.
16 controversies · 27 sources2 formal charges
Politics and government
Documented profile covering 16 controversies, including “Lakanal House: Southwark admits four fire safety breaches and receives £570,000 in fines and costs” and “Local austerity: job cuts, restructuring and approximately 200 FTE positions threatened in Southwark budgets”.
16 controversies · 46 sources
Politics and government
Documented profile covering 16 controversies, including “2016–2024: from fierce Donald Trump critic to running mate and leading political heir” and “2021–2024: 'childless cat ladies', pro-parent taxation and proposal to give parents additional votes”.
16 controversies · 32 sources
Politics and government
Documented profile covering 16 controversies, including “External participation in a mafia association: final seven-year conviction” and “Before sentence enforcement: wanted, arrested in Beirut then extradited to Italy”.
16 controversies · 27 sources2 convictions8 formal charges
Politics and government
Documented profile covering 16 controversies, including “Guilty plea in Prime Minister's residence meals case” and “Meni Naftali: civil judgment describes abusive working environment at residence”.
16 controversies · 29 sources1 conviction
Politics and government
Documented profile covering 15 controversies, including “Facebook Post about Roma People: Administrative Fine Subsequently Overturned by Court” and “Bairro da Jamaica: Final Civil Judgment for Racial Segregation”.
15 controversies · 19 sources
Politics and government
Documented profile covering 15 controversies, including “Toulouse: senior civil servant complains of verbal aggression, alleged sidelining and refusal of leave” and “Ajaccio: demonstrations banned in Jardins de l'Empereur following violence and xenophobic gatherings”.
15 controversies · 29 sources
Politics and government
Documented profile covering 15 controversies, including “1 000 $ fundraising dinner with pharmaceutical executives” and “Highly contested study claiming Quebec sovereignty would be financially "profitable"”.
15 controversies · 4 sources
Politics and government
Documented profile covering 15 controversies, including “Confrontation with Diane Abbott following Jeremy Corbyn's election and apology for insults” and “International Men's Day: laughter in committee and accusation of dismissing men's problems”.
15 controversies · 24 sources
Politics and government
Documented profile covering 15 controversies, including “Austrian investigation reopened in 2005 into possible involvement in Abdul Rahman Qassemlou assassination” and “2005 call for Israel to disappear from the political map”.
15 controversies · 24 sources
Politics and government
Documented profile covering 15 controversies, including “Project Raven: cyber-surveillance programme targeting dissidents, journalists and political opponents” and “Ahmed Mansoor's imprisonment and international criticism of detention conditions”.
15 controversies · 35 sources
Politics and government
Documented profile covering 15 controversies, including “ABCD de l'égalité: central target of controversy over alleged 'gender theory'” and “Prostitution: support for criminalising clients despite criticism from frontline associations”.
15 controversies · 28 sources
Politics and government
Documented profile covering 15 controversies, including “Remarks about Indigenous residential schools on day of federal apology, followed by formal apology” and “Use of expression 'tar baby' and controversy over racial connotations”.
15 controversies · 21 sources
Politics and government
Documented profile covering 15 controversies, including “Shimon Peres Bundestag speech: refusal to join standing ovation” and “2016 controversies over 'Gastrecht', Cologne, Ansbach and refugee integration”.
15 controversies · 23 sources
Politics and government
Documented profile covering 14 controversies, including “1999: parliamentary campaign against forced marriage and support for Zena Briggs” and “2001: proposal to require some immigrant spouses to learn English and use of phrase 'importing poverty'”.
14 controversies · 21 sources
Politics and government
Documented profile covering 14 controversies, including “1953 Qibya raid led by Sharon's unit and condemned by Security Council” and “Kahan Commission: personal responsibility for failure to prevent Sabra and Shatila massacres”.
14 controversies · 26 sources
Politics and government
Documented profile covering 14 controversies, including “Statement that Huwara should be "wiped out", condemned as incitement to violence” and “Remarks suggesting that starving two million Gaza residents could be "justified and moral"”.
14 controversies · 21 sources
Politics and government
Documented profile covering 14 controversies, including “2011 resignation after failed referendum on free school meals” and “Family land in Naegok-dong: suspicions of false statement and conflict of interest, without indictment”.
14 controversies · 27 sources1 conviction1 formal charge
Politics and government
Documented profile covering 14 controversies, including “2020–2021: David Cameron's lobbying of the Treasury for Greensill and messages showing Sunak pressing his team to examine the request” and “July–August 2020 / 2023 inquiry: 'Eat Out to Help Out' launched without specifically consulting leading scientific advisers”.
14 controversies · 23 sources
Politics and government
Documented profile covering 13 controversies, including “1996 wedding video shows Alfano greeting Croce Napoli, described as local mafia boss” and “'Lodo Alfano': temporary immunity for four highest state offices ruled unconstitutional”.
13 controversies · 15 sources
Politics and government
Documented profile covering 13 controversies, including “School timetable reform: greater flexibility fails to end local opposition” and “ABCD de l'égalité: decision not to roll out programme nationwide and accusations of retreat in face of opponents”.
13 controversies · 20 sources1 formal charge
Politics and government
Documented profile covering 13 controversies, including “Ontario Health Premium following an election promise not to raise taxes” and “Caledonia crisis and criticism of law enforcement and land dispute management”.
13 controversies · 23 sources
SportPolitics and government
Documented profile covering 13 controversies, including “Proposed 25 million-euro indoor velodrome in Sarzeau, ultimately abandoned” and “Relations with Igor Makarov before election as UCI president”.
13 controversies · 13 sources
Politics and government
Former Chancellor of the Exchequer and former Conservative MP.
13 controversies · 22 sources
Politics and government
Former Health Secretary, Foreign Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer.
13 controversies · 23 sources
Politics and government
Documented profile covering 13 controversies, including “Quarto: criticism of M5S handling of reported pressure on mayor's office” and “Paola Muraro affair: controversy over email reporting judicial investigation”.
13 controversies · 18 sources
Politics and government
Documented profile covering 13 controversies, including “1983–1985 military regime: authoritarianism, detentions and "War Against Indiscipline"” and “Economic policy: exchange controls, border closures and recessions”.
13 controversies · 19 sources
Politics and government
Documented profile covering 13 controversies, including “Break with 17-Year BJP Alliance Following Narendra Modi's Rise” and “Jitan Ram Manjhi: Nitish's Chosen Successor Subsequently Ousted in Internal Crisis”.
13 controversies · 15 sources
Politics and government
Documented profile covering 13 controversies, including “Biondi 'salvaladri' decree: Maroni says he was misled and offers resignation” and “Internal Lega split over fall of first Berlusconi government”.
13 controversies · 18 sources1 conviction1 formal charge
Politics and government
Documented profile covering 13 controversies, including “Remarks about the 'homeopathic dilution' of the Dutch people” and “Essay on women, abortion and euthanasia criticised as misogynistic”.
13 controversies · 18 sources
Politics and government
Former British Prime Minister and former leader of the Labour Party.
13 controversies · 18 sources
Politics and government
Documented profile covering 13 controversies, including “Gripen purchase and criticism of the aircraft evaluation” and “Defence of offshore companies following the Panama Papers”.
13 controversies · 11 sources
Politics and government
Documented profile covering 13 controversies, including “Financing of anti-refugee film Silent Invasion and accusations of xenophobia” and “Public confrontation with Süleyman Soylu over anti-refugee policy”.
13 controversies · 17 sources1 conviction6 formal charges
Politics and governmentMedia and journalism
Documented profile covering 13 controversies, including “2017 publication of photomontage using antisemitic imagery” and “Recording of strip club outing and embarrassing remarks about gas deal”.
13 controversies · 25 sources
Politics and government
Documented profile covering 12 controversies, including “Police property leases: findings of maladministration, dismissal and subsequent judicial annulment” and “"Shoot to kill" rhetoric and debate over police use of lethal force”.
12 controversies · 26 sources
Politics and government
Documented profile covering 12 controversies, including “Manipulated hospital waiting lists: 2009 crisis while Andrews was Health Minister” and “Paramedics: accusation of ignoring warnings on rest periods between shifts”.
12 controversies · 17 sources
Politics and government
British MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington, the first Black woman elected to the House of Commons.
12 controversies · 14 sources
Politics and government
Documented profile covering 12 controversies, including “2018 rail reform: end of statutory employment status for new recruits and historic SNCF labour dispute” and “SNCF: controversy over alleged secret privatisation plan, firmly denied”.
12 controversies · 19 sources
Politics and government
Documented profile covering 12 controversies, including “2007: disclosure of affair with Ruby Rippey-Tourk, wife of his campaign manager and City Hall employee” and “February 2007: enters treatment for alcohol problem following affair scandal”.
12 controversies · 15 sources
Politics and government
Documented profile covering 12 controversies, including “Historical convictions for incitement to racism and support for a banned terrorist organisation” and “Visits and prayers at Temple Mount/Al-Aqsa challenging religious status quo”.
12 controversies · 18 sources1 conviction
Politics and government
Documented profile covering 12 controversies, including “Promise to abolish GST followed by retention of the tax” and “'Shawinigan Handshake': physical restraint of protester and charge subsequently quashed”.
12 controversies · 21 sources1 formal charge
Politics and government
Documented profile covering 12 controversies, including “1994–1996: relationship with Willie Brown and appointments to two public commissions — longstanding patronage controversy” and “2004: refusal to seek death penalty following murder of police officer Isaac Espinoza”.
12 controversies · 24 sources
Business and billionairesPolitics and government
Documented profile covering 12 controversies, including “Payments into former President Roh Tae-woo's slush fund: corruption conviction” and “1997 presidential pardon following conviction in Roh Tae-woo affair”.
12 controversies · 17 sources2 convictions
Politics and government
Documented profile covering 12 controversies, including “Camera broken in altercation: guilty plea to malicious damage and good behaviour bond” and “Anonymous Twitter account attacking women: resignation from Australian Financial Review”.
12 controversies · 23 sources
Politics and government
Documented profile covering 12 controversies, including “2007 remarks concerning possible pardon of RAF terrorist Christian Klar” and “'Kreuzerlass': mandatory crosses at entrances to Bavarian government buildings”.
12 controversies · 19 sources
Politics and government
Former British Secretary of State for Education, Environment and Levelling Up, and former Cabinet Office minister.
12 controversies · 22 sources
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