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Hypocrite education minister plagiarises speech from Wikipedia
A Conservative minister has been caught red-handed stealing a House of Commons speech from Wikipedia. Ironically enough, the MP in question is universities minister John Hayes, whose portfolio...
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Wikipedia-fiddler Grant Shapps exposed over failed science O-level
When Grant Shapps scrubbed a reference to his O-levels from Wikipedia the Tory chairman noted in the edit that information about his exams was “not verifiable”, before later telling journalists that —...
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Toby Young has edited his own Wikipedia page 200 times in six years
Spectator columnist and Telegraph blogger Toby Young has spent hours removing embarrassing information from his Wikipedia page in a sustained campaign of edits lasting more than six years. After...
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In full: the criticism deleted from Lynton Crosby’s Wikipedia page
With Channel 4 News revealing that staff of controversial spin doctor Lynton Crosby had deleted criticism from his Wikipedia page, it’s worth having a look at exactly what: On 9 December 2012...
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Polish internet addresses insert pro-Tory link spam on Wikipedia
Computers linked to Polish internet addresses have made nearly 130 spam edits to Wikipedia in a blatant effort to promote the campaign websites of Conservative candidates in target seats, Political...
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MPs’ Wikipedia pages anonymously ‘airbrushed’ from Parliamentary computers
It seems there are still Commons staff (or indeed MPs) who don’t realise that anonymous edits to Wikipedia from within the parliamentary estate can be tracked. There is even a Twitter account...
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Shapps’ new boss is cabinet minister whose Wikipedia he (allegedly) edited
Sublime. With Grant Shapps sacked as Tory chairman (a role in which he was entitled to attend cabinet) his new boss at the Department for International Development is Justine Greening — to whose...
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