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James Hanning

James Hanning is the former Deputy Editor of The Independent on Sunday and the co-author of a biography of David Cameron

<p>Kim Philby seen addressing the Stasi</p>
Voices

We are too unwilling to understand the motivations of spy Kim Philby

The Grand Hotel Excelsior Vittoria enjoys views across the Bay of Naples and Mount Vesuvius which are hard to beat
Europe

Why Italy's the place for a family holiday

Beaulieu sits on the banks of the Dordogne river
Europe

Down in the valley: discovering the Dordogne’s quiet side

Peter Saunders, founder and former director of the National Association of People Abused in Childhood, is one of many astonished at the police inaction
Crime

Paedophile register 'ignored by police'

A prisoner is taken for questioning at Guantanamo
UK Politics

Key documents on rendition suppressed by UK government

Kandersteg
Skiing

Skiing in Kandersteg, the Belle of Bernese Oberland

Lord Bramall has always denied any involvement in abuse
Voices

For Lord Bramall, justice will have to wait

Former Belgian PM: postpone UK talks
Europe

Former Belgian PM calls for postponement to British EU talks

No action: Lord Bramall has always denied any involvement in abuse
Crime

Lord Bramall’s accuser should be charged, says Harvey Proctor

Jeremy Corbyn says he “cannot see circumstances where you could use” nuclear weapons
UK Politics

Jeremy Corbyn on churches, cats and a nuclear-free world

Rebekah Brooks before she was cleared of phone-hacking charges in 2014
Crime

Phone hacking: The Sun accusers open a new chapter

DCI Paul Settle gave evidence to the Home Affairs Select Committee over the alleged Westminster paedophile ring
Crime

VIP sex ring police officer probed over 'leaking material to media'

Angus Robertson leads the SNP's 54 MPs at Westminster
UK Politics

Angus Robertson on being the new star of Prime Minister's Questions

UK Politics

Angus Robertson on being the new star of Prime Minister's Questions

Angus Robertson leads the SNP's 54 MPs at Westminster
Lisa Nandy says there is a false dichotomy in Tory thinking on climate change
News

Paris climate change talks 'will provide false dawn in UK's role'

Making enemies: Tom Watson has upset the Brittan family and some police officers
UK Politics

Why Tom Watson won't stop speaking up for child abuse victims

Theresa May said she is prepared to curb "excessive and disproportionate" use of powers if the police record does not improve
Voices

How did the Met get into this mess over Lord Brittan?

Lord Michael Ashcroft addresses delegates at the 2014 Conservative party conference
UK Politics

Lord Ashcroft embroiled in tax avoidance investigation

Lord Michael Ashcroft addresses delegates at the 2014 Conservative party conference
UK Politics

Lord Ashcroft embroiled in tax avoidance investigation

New Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is a regular customer at the restaurant
UK Politics

Visiting Jeremy Corbyn's favourite restaurant - Gaby's Deli

Reviews

Stalin’s Englishman: The Lives of Guy Burgess, by Andrew Lownie -

Former Tory MP Harvey Proctor speaks during a press conference at St Ermin's Hotel, London, where he insisted he is "completely innocent"
Comment

Harvey Proctor and a worrying case of justice by lynch mob

Mr Proctor has written a lengthy statement setting out his position
Crime

Former Tory MP faces second police interview

Chris Langham says he has 'completely f****d up' his own life
People

Disgraced actor Chris Langham working on orphanage film

Edward Heath as Prime Minister in 1971
People

Edward Heath 'was not a sexual being', says closest female friend

The Kincora Boys’ Home in Belfast; in 1981, three men were imprisoned for between four and six years for a number of offences relating to systematic sexual abuse
Crime

Northern Ireland authorities refuse to reveal details of paedophile

The TV adaptation of 'Gomorrah'
Features

Roberto Saviano: 'Gomorrah' author on how book cost him his freedom

Edward Heath as Prime Minister in 1971
People

Edward Heath 'was not a sexual being', says closest female friend

The Kincora Boys’ Home in Belfast; in 1981, three men were imprisoned for between four and six years for a number of offences relating to systematic sexual abuse
Crime

Northern Ireland authorities refuse to reveal details of paedophile

The TV adaptation of 'Gomorrah'
Features

Roberto Saviano: 'Gomorrah' author on how book cost him his freedom

Roberto Saviano says the City of London is the money-laundering centre of the world’s drug trade
Crime

London 'now the global money-laundering centre for the drug trade'

Crime

London 'now the global money-laundering centre for the drug trade'

Roberto Saviano says the City of London is the money-laundering centre of the world’s drug trade
Lord Brittan was interviewed by the police last year
Crime

Lord Brittan: Police 'failed to tell' dying peer he would not face

Harvey Proctor has been accused of being not only a paedophile but also the hub of supposed Westminster sex ring
People

Former Tory MP: I was about to kill myself, but act of kindness saved

Harvey Proctor, then MP for Billericay, on his way to court in 1987
UK Politics

Westminster paedophile ring: Former Tory MP Harvey Proctor says he was

Water view: Villa la Massa
Hotels

Villa La Massa, Florence: Live like the Medici or just loaf about

Water view: Villa la Massa
Hotels

Villa La Massa, Florence: Live like the Medici or just loaf about

Cap de Creus Natural Park
Europe

Walking holiday in Spain: From Catalonia's Pyrenees down to the

Cap de Creus Natural Park
Europe

Walking holiday in Spain: From Catalonia's Pyrenees down to the

Malicious rumours were also circulated about the private lives of former prime ministers Harold Wilson
Crime

Did South African intelligence help Cyril Smith escape justice?

The former head of MI6 has revealed that torture “does produce intelligence”
Home News

Revealed: How torture was used to foil al-Qaeda plot

Clint Massey, who lived at Kincora as a boy, agrees the Goddard inquiry should examine his former home
Crime

Kincora scandal: Abuse victim seeks Judicial Review over MI5 link to

Protestors and police clash as the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) holds its first open meeting in London, 1977 (Getty)
Crime

Call for inquiry into links between senior civil servant Sir Peter

The Prince has stepped up the number of meetings with ministers and civil servants recently, partly in recognition of the Queen’s advancing age (Getty)
People

Prince Charles the saviour of the nation? A new book highlights

Police were said to believe that Brittan had ‘a thing about power’ (Rex)
Voices

Lord Brittan: The accusations against the former Home Secretary that

Laud: ‘You can’t open a cupboard in No 10 without an Old Etonian falling out’ (Getty)
UK Politics

Conservative party is still racist, says former adviser

Politicians queue up to tell us how much they disapprove of torture. The problem is that there’s a large grey area
Comment

Britain condemns torture, but it 'picks the fruit'

The restaurant's 'see-everything' kitchen serves up modishly tapas-esque dishes
Reviews

Ox & Finch, restaurant review: Glasgow's new pace-setter

Reviews

Ox & Finch, restaurant review: Glasgow's new pace-setter

The restaurant's 'see-everything' kitchen serves up modishly tapas-esque dishes
Theresa May, left, and Fiona Woolf
UK Politics

Child abuse inquiry: Home Secretary Theresa May under pressure to give

Abuse support group NAPAC reports a rise in victims needing help
Health News

NHS seeks to make up for lost time with child abuse victims

Royal Air Force Tornado GR4 aircrew prepare to depart RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus ahead of the RAF's first combat mission against Islamic State militants in northern Iraq
Middle East

Isis: War has started, but do we know what we're doing?

British Prime Minister David Cameron gestures as he speaks during a visit to Scottish Widows offices in Edinburgh
Comment

Cameron cares about Union as any blue-blooded Etonian would

British Prime Minister David Cameron gestures as he speaks during a visit to Scottish Widows offices in Edinburgh
Comment

Cameron cares about Union as any blue-blooded Etonian would

Prime Minister David Cameron speaks during a visit to Scottish Widows offices in Edinburgh, where he made an impassioned plea to keep Scotland part of the union, saying he would be "heartbroken" if the UK was torn apart
Comment

Those who’ve never detected much political conviction in David

Justice: Clint Massey was a victim of abuse at Kincora
Crime

The Kincora scandal: 'MI5 tried to blackmail Belfast homosexual,' says

David Cameron is likely to face fresh questions about his friendship with former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks, recently cleared of charges relating to phone hacking, after it emerged that a retired police horse she was loaned by the Metropolita
Crime

Brooks wanted Cameron along for a ride on her police horse

It was only revealed last year that the phones of the Duchess of Cambridge, Prince William, and Prince Harry had been hacked
Crime

Phone-hacking: Royal connection blamed for police failure

Glenn Mulcaire arrives at court for a phone-hacking hearing in 2006
Opinion

How did Mulcaire become such a reviled man in Britain?

Glenn Mulcaire arrives at court for a phone-hacking hearing in 2006
Opinion

How did Mulcaire become such a reviled man in Britain?

Glenn Mulcaire and his wife Alison arriving at court in 2012
Crime

Phone hacking scandal: Police are holding back evidence, claims Glenn

Glenn Mulcaire this year
Crime

Hacking: The slide into crime at the 'News of the World'

The former Elm Guest House, Barnes, the site of alleged abuse. Despite the case being reopened last year no one has been charged
Crime

Exclusive: Child abuse victims to sue Government

The key players: Andy Coulson
Crime

Exclusive book extract: 'Did you know about the phone hacking?' Andy

Pfizer chief Ian Read, centre, flanked by his colleagues Mikael Dolsten, left, and Rod MacKenzie, right, face the Science and Technology Committee at the House of Commons
Business News

AstraZeneca: MPs 'barking up wrong tree' on Pfizer bid

Business News

AstraZeneca: MPs 'barking up wrong tree' on Pfizer bid

Pfizer chief Ian Read, centre, flanked by his colleagues Mikael Dolsten, left, and Rod MacKenzie, right, face the Science and Technology Committee at the House of Commons
Max Clifford outside court
Comment

As Max Clifford has found: live by the detail, die by the detail

Field of dreams: the 'infinity pitch'
Asia

Game on in Nepal: soccer and scenery collide

Lee grew up outside Birmingham, having been adopted as a baby
Features

Stewart Lee: Beware - this man may be only joking

Office politics: Mr Ortikov’s troubles began as a British embassy employee
Crime

Man tortured for Britain finds asylum – in the US

Office politics: Mr Ortikov’s troubles began as a British embassy employee
Crime

Man tortured for Britain finds asylum – in the US

Crime

Is this why the Profumo file is still secret?

The way we ... listened: Beyonce
This Britain

The way we were 2013... The IoS looks back at a year of firsts, lasts

Although doggedly determined, Swire lacks a high-profile backer in parliament and as Lockerbie receeds from the public's memory justice looks less and less likely
Home News

‘Flora was a real seeker after truth herself’: Jim Swire won't

Friend or foe? Margaret Thatcher and Nelson Mandela at No 10 in 1990
World Politics

The 'terrorist' and the Tories: What did Nelson Mandela really think

Terry Jones is ‘more despairing than cross’ about human nature and the state of British politics
Features

Terry Jones: Still silly after all these years

Forced exile: Kayum Ortikov has lived with his family in Ukraine since fleeing Uzbekistan
UK Politics

Family in limbo after UK leaves Uzbek embassy man in the cold

Buona! Boys carry spaghetti in 1929 Naples. Inset, Gennaro Contaldo
News

Ketchup on your pasta? Basta! Italian food institute issues a list of

Respectability: Rocks Lane in Barnes, London, former haunt of an alleged paedophile ring
Crime

Elm Guest House investigation: Former senior cabinet minister faces

Exit road: Britain will use Uzbekistan to extract military equipment from Afghanistan
UK Politics

'Uzbeks tortured me,' says British Embassy man

Boris Berezovsky’s eldest daughter recalls a charismatic man fired by freedom, honour - and guilt
Profiles

Liza Berezovskaya: My father was 'one of the greatest men of our time'

Marked man: Huhne arrives for sentencing last Monday at Southwark Crown Court
UK Politics

Chris Huhne's wealth 'has been hugely over-rated'

Rocks Lane, Barnes
Crime

Paedophile ring leader, Colin Peters, linked to Barnes scandal

Lord Rennard played a pivotal role in Nick Clegg’s rise but now might reveal the sexual misconduct allegations engulfing the peer
UK Politics

Lord Rennard victim of a 'whispering campaign'

Elm Guest House owner Carole Kasir in 1983
Crime

Abuse victims 'trafficked abroad'

Accused: The late Sir Cyril Smith has been linked to a police inquiry into a paedophile ring
Crime

Cyril Smith named in Barnes abuse case

'In their sights, they have a Lib Dem cabinet minister and a former lesbian. Good God, it’s all their Christmases rolled into one’'
Profiles

Carina Trimingham: 'I just happened to fall in love with an MP'

Elm Guest House owner Carole Kasir in 1983
Crime

Abuse victims 'trafficked abroad'

Accused: The late Sir Cyril Smith has been linked to a police inquiry into a paedophile ring
Crime

Cyril Smith named in Barnes abuse case

'In their sights, they have a Lib Dem cabinet minister and a former lesbian. Good God, it’s all their Christmases rolled into one’'
Profiles

Carina Trimingham: 'I just happened to fall in love with an MP'

Hidden abuse: Rocks Lane in Barnes, south-west London. During the 1970s it was the scene of gay parties
Crime

Special report: Police revisit the grim mystery of Elm Guest House

Biting back: Mosley says the politicians have not understood Leveson yet
Home News

Max Mosley was the brains behind the Leveson report

Sally Bercow pointed Twitter users towards internet allegations made wrongly against Lord McAlpine
Home News

Care homes scandal: *Gulp* How tweeting can damage your wealth

Reviews

George Osborne: The Austerity Chancellor, By Janan Ganesh

Sir Anthony Bamford, left, owner of JCB, invited David Cameron, right, to open the company's new factory in Sao Paulo, Brazil, last week
UK Politics

IoS exclusive: Cameron in crony row over Brazil factory

Gate-Gate? Andrew Mitchell is accused of calling a police officer a 'pleb' during a row about use of the Downing St gate
UK Politics

Will Andrew Mitchell be getting on his bike?

There are still things we don't know about in the Leveson inquiry - for example, what did David Cameron send to Rebekah Brooks to prompt her 'rooting for you' text?
Press

The Leveson Inquiry: We're in this together!

The Chancellor could be called as Jeremy Hunt prepares his evidence
UK Politics

Osborne to face questions over links to Murdoch

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