Labour's ability to hold Falkirk has been hit hard by controversies over sitting MP Eric Joyce's personal behaviour and the vote-fixing allegations that hit Labour's selection process after Joyce was forced out of the party, to sit as an independent.
It's amazing the way people who have no objection to a figurehead royal get annoyed any time he gets involved in controversies.
Moyles has always annoyed those who didn't listen to him, but despite controversies such as his pay dispute with BBC bosses, his audience has largely seem unphased.
Other edits by lobbyists range from a computer in the offices of payday lender Wonga deleting references to "usury" from its entry, to a computer registered to the American multinational Dow Chemical repeatedly attempting to remove a large section from the company's profile detailing "controversies".
After controversies about blackmail plots concerning the team's captain and Twitter debates on the minimum wage, it is time for England's cricketers to do their talking on the field – starting with Friday's winner-takes-all Tri-Series match against India.
That way of communicating could cause controversies, too – when they performed the song that gave name to the documentary on The Word in 1992, Sparks dropped her trousers on stage, blasting her pixellated buttocks into UK homes.
Ed Richards was speaking on Friday morning after culture secretary Maria Miller issued a final warning to the BBC Trust over its handling of several controversies, and calls from politicians and senior industry figures to hand regulation of the corporation over to Ofcom.
After a challenging and tumultuous period of unprecedented controversies, it may now be time for the ICC to reconsider its role as well.
By a bitter, depressing twist of irony the scene of the latest battleground in the Ulster loyalist marching controversies happens to be a holy place that once symbolised Protestant-Catholic co-operation.
Many observers rightly concluded that continuous debate – including harsh, personalised controversies – were key to the success of coming-to-terms with nazism in particular.
Related: Jeremy Clarkson: a history of BBC Top Gear controversies Yet Clarkson, who has made an estimated £30m from the show, had built a reputation as the antithesis of the corporation man, taking apparent pride in his straight-talking ways.
