A sense of shame encompasses personal and public responsibility and a social conscience. It isn’t easily reconciled with a prominent banker, Nathaniel Rothschild, being accused of arranging a 25-hour visit to Siberia by Lord Mandelson, the former...

Act, then there was SOPA and its counterpart PIPA, and now there's the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA. Or rather, little did we know that before the Digital Economy Act was a twinkle in Peter Mandelson's eye, negotiations for ACTA were...

Deripaska, the Russian oligarch close to financier Nat Rothschild and Lord Mandelson, has accused his rival Michael Cherney of bribing politicians and "masterminding" a protection racket. The allegations emerged in London's high court on Monday where...

Banker Nathaniel Rothschild has lost his bid to win libel damages over a Daily Mail story which he said portrayed him as a "puppet-master" who brought together Lord Mandelson and Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska. The 40-year-old Swiss-based financier...

Of all the private rooms, in all the restaurants, in all the cities, in all the world, on that particular night, why did Mandy have to walk into that one, you might well wonder As Mr Justice Tugendhat stated in his judgment yesterday: ‘It is agreed...

"The truth is, as the Daily Mail has now accepted, that I had nothing whatsoever to do with this deal and that it had in any event been completed before Lord Mandelson and I even arrived in Moscow," he said in a statement. Disputing the judge's...