When the Data Protection Ombudsman opens his mail in the morning.

If you’re reading this news article using your O2 mobile phone, you’ll be pleased to know that O2 have already sent me your mobile phone

What is it that the ‘Left’ are really afraid of? Losing a client voting base comprised almost exclusively these days of public sector workers and the vulnerable dependant? ‘Wot about the Workers’ is hugely inappropriate, for they only stand

What exactly is it that predisposes some people to be heroes and some cowards? Is it the full panoply of ‘little boys don’t cry’, ‘trials of strength’ and a suitable diet of ‘boy’s own heroes’ that ensures

I wonder how Steve Sasson is feeling on this gloomy morning for Kodak? I’ve just unearthed a 2007 article he wrote for Kodak’s internal blog entitled ‘We had no idea’. What prescience Steve!

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Poor delud-Ed. Disgraced Capo of the Union Borgata, desperately churning out chat-up lines like an intoxicated speed dater, trying to locate the one voter who might be desperate enough to let him get his leg over at

Ms Raccoon is amongst you once more – and has enjoyed a perfectly splendid time in Jersey.

Arriving on the late night ferry from St Malo, tired and dishevelled, disorientated, driving on the wrong side of

Did you know that the British Isles had been invaded 53 times since 1066? I always thought we’d never been invaded since 1066.  Shows how much I know!

The nit-picking over tit-nicking and who should pay for it continues.

Now it has been revealed that Bluestar International had supplied industrial grade silicon to PIP from its Rhodorsil range which was meant for making tyres.

Almost 19 years have passed since Stephen Lawrence was murdered, a longer period of time than he had lived.

The passage of time, and, dare I say it, the prevailing ideology of these times have blunted

My secret squirrel legal eagle correspondent pointed me at this interesting bit of legal analysis:

Under our law, transfers of shares in a company have to be made by

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Over the past 20 years, the NHS has systematically – and I use that word deliberately – built itself into a closed shop for every variety of care.

It has done so I believe deliberately; for

Let’s see how good your memory is! “War, disease, crime and banditry, distress of nations and perplexity will increase until …”

If you were a connoisseur of 1960′s and 1970′s Fleet Street newspapers, you will recognise

I raise a glass to you all – and wish you the best possible Christmas.

It has been an extraordinary year, so many changes in the world – and a good few in my world.

You

It must be Christmas – guilt inducing adverts and press releases have increased dramatically.

In between Fedosi starving in the arms of her well fed Mother, (only £2 a month) and saving Ayesha from marrying at

As you settle down to listen to the news tonight over your plate of chicken nuggets smothered in Hellman’s mayonnaise and baked for a mere 6 minutes, prepare yourself for the doom and gloom.

Not the