People must be getting really unlucky on Britain’s motorways these days. After all, they keep running out of petrol – at least, that’s what they are telling me. In the past few weeks I’ve been accosted on no less than four occasions at motorway service stations by these haple...

I had forgotten about this story. Indeed, I was unaware of it until I read about it in the print version of Connexion shortly before returning to the UK last week. I was reminded because as always when meeting clients, they ask how things are going since I moved to France. Today, one such ...

A year ago, I lambasted Charlie Brooker because he professed to be a hard wired Labour supporter regardless of the facts. Well, it seems that he has had an epiphany: My personal snapping point was reached last week, at the precise moment Jack Straw announced the government was vetoing the Informatio...

Tom Harris writes in defence of Jack Straw. He, like other labour MPs defends the government’s legacy on liberty. He, like other Labour MPs believes that black is white, up is down and slavery is freedom. And, like other members of the supercilious righteous political elite, regards those...

I see that fakecharities.org has scored a palpable hit. Well done. Oh, and anyone thinking about giving to Red Nose day, they support fake charities, so will not be getting a penny of my hard earned. I only give to real charities. Tags: fake+charities, red+nose+day...

I see via the Englishman that the Times has pulled an article by Philip Pullman. It is an excellent article and makes the point about freedom in a wistful and elegiac manner. Well worth reading and far too good to be pulled. So, like the Englishman, I am reproducing it: Malevolent voices that despis...

Jack Straw writes in the Groan’s CiF, defending the government’s legacy on liberty. They have one, it seems. The strapline starts as this dire piece means to go on – with a logical fallacy and an outright lie: Our record isn’t perfect. But talk of a police state is daft There...

Blogging has been light this past few days. A drive through France back to Blighty, followed by a migraine left me somewhat disinclined. Still, in the meantime, the Devil’s Kitchen has been having a fine old rant about Monty Don. I think, on balance, Monty’s comments may have been taken ...

Following the debacle surrounding the Facebook terms of service, the president of Epic (Electronic Privacy Information Centre), Marc Rotenberg feels that more law is in order. The row over Facebook’s change in its terms of service governing users personal data highlights the need for a privacy...

Leg Iron comments on the case of the Christian parent whose child was rebuked and whose personal emails were used to accuse her of professional misconduct. Mrs Cain sent a private email to close friends to ask for prayers for her daughter after she was called into the school where she worked in Cred...