spiked talks to the Londoner who campaigned to switch off a Robocop-style talking CCTV camera in Camden.

As I've recently been mentioning here, I have lately been doing lots of clearing out of junk from and organising of my home, which is a very satisfying activity. While doing this today, I had another of those haven't-things-been-progressing-a-lot-lately? moments: The point being that that's 16 megabytes. Not gigabytes, megabytes. This thing came with one of my earlier digital camera...

Lisette Talate died the other day.  I remember a wiry, fiercely intelligent woman who masked her grief with a determination that was a presence. She was the embodiment of people's resistance to the war on democracy. I first glimpsed her in a 1950s Colonial Office film about the Chagos islanders, a tiny creole nation living midway between Africa and Asia in the Indian Ocean. The camera pa...

Drudge has the story... Newt Gingrich's ex wife Marianne apparently has done a tell-all two hour interview with ABC's Brian Ross about her marriage to Gingrich. That would be wife number two, the one he was having an affair with when wife number one had cancer and the one he ditched while he was having an affair with number three, Callista. Talk about flip flopping! You had to know all a...

Earlier this year I went as a reporter to cover Julie Walters’ return to her hometown of Smethwick, where she was talking to schoolchildren as part of the FILMCLUB charity’s Close Encounters programme. The town where Oswald Mosley was MP, and where Malcolm X once came to challenge racist election campaigning, remains a place struggling with deprivation and poverty. However what I saw i...

The world's financial system, run by institutions that were a few short years ago considered to be too big to fail but which are now too big to bail, is collapsing. But, the making of mere things, not now nearly so fatally deranged by government imposed regulations or corrupted by government supplied moral hazards, continues to flourish. Will thing-making survive the financial turmoil of the ...

Members of the European Parliament (MEP's) sign-in to get paid, run from the camera like rats from a sinking ship and then leave for vacation! It could have been Washington but there is no attendance sheet at the White House! Although this video is in German with English subtitles, it is all too clear that these MEP's do not want to be seen "stealing" the substantial amount of taxpayer m...

At two minutes before midnight on Sunday evening, the world's seven billionth living human being was born into a working-class family in Manila amid flashes of camera bulbs and the excited murmur of government officials.

A Newcastle Council boss is snapped by one of his own camera's speeding in the city says the "irony" is not lost in him.

"In 2005, a year after Belhadj’s rendition, Jack Straw declared there was ‘no truth’ in claims of British involvement, while Tony Blair maintained there was ‘absolutely no evidence’." - Daily Mail Blair, with his Prince of Orange tan and ever camera-ready face, is slippery; Straw, with his worn, domesticated look is slippery as defined by Ross Noble: a bit like a slip...