A few days ago I came across this news story, in which a group of French journalists are to be holed up in a farmhousesomewhere with no access to normal news media but with access to Social Media - Tw…
Have you heard of ACTA? How about the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement? No? Well, you're probably not alone. After all, here in the UK the Government won't even put documents regarding the Agre…
I appreciate that I may be being overly cynical here, and will certainly feel a total idiot if the recent escalation of the UK's Terror Alert Status actually was based in one of the threats reported h…
Sometimes the stuff that changes the world starts quietly. On September 9th, 2001, Ahmad Shah Massoud, leader of Afghanistan's Northern Alliance, was assassinated in a suicide bombing. A few months …
Today is a bad day for anyone who likes the idea of integrity and common decency. Take a look at this news story from the BBC about the ADE-651 bomb detector. This baby sells for up to $40,000 a p…
The other day I was browsing the online edition of the Sunday Times and came across a brief quote from Jeremy Clarkson : "I mean, if you really want to serve the nation, you could stop whining about t…
Although this little gem of a story happened in the US, I have no doubt that given a few more months it's likely to happen here. Well...I don't know...at least the Yanks encourage science and technol…
This is a long story in celebrity terms...but stay with me. It's one of those tales where we can't tell who's version of what happened is actually the right one - so many versions of what happened it…
For a long time I've taken the mickey out of Google's famous slogan 'Do No Evil'. I mean, most companies and individuals go through life with their ethical and moral compass intact and manage to perf…
The recent arrest of 2 men on an Emirates Airlines flightfor making a verbal bomb threat and for being drunk and disorderly is really nothing new; it's happened a few times since 9/11. Up until about…