Investigation follows claims that former reporter at Murdoch owned newspaper hacked into emails of anonymous police blogger.

The blog gasdrillinginbalcombe is providing a forum for discussion of Cuadrilla's proposal to see whether exploring in Balcombe for shale oil might be worth while. This post doesn't aim to add to that discussion, which follows a meeting at which a senior Cuadrilla  man was ambushed. Rather, I do recommend signing up for email notifications of comments. There's a lively debate g...

The Times newspaper is being investigated by the Met police over email hacking claims, the BBC understands.

Scotland Yard launch investigation following complaint from Labour MP Tom Watson.

Could you live without daily electronic conveniences -- Twitter, Facebook, email, texting and more -- for 90 days? Jake P. Reilly, a 24-year-old copywriting student at the Chicago Portfolio School, did just that. From October to December, he unplugged from...

No reply. That’s what happens a third of the time if a member of the public contacts a Liberal Democrat local party via the internet according to a ‘mystery shopper’ exercise I carried out earlier this month. Taking the publicly advertised email addresses for 25 local parties, I tried sending them all a test email

Labour has called for Boris Johnson's Australian campaign supremo Lynton Crosby to apologise to Val Shawcross AM after he falsely claimed that Ken Livingstone's running mate was calling for a council tax increase. In an email sent overnight to supporters, Crosby wrote: "But Ken Livingstone's hand picked Deputy Mayoral running mate in the Assembly is leading the Labour charge against...

Labour MP Tom Watson complains to Scotland Yard calling on the force to investigate email hacking allegations.

The editor of The Times, James Harding, is facing calls to be recalled to the Leveson Inquiry to explain exactly when he knew one his reporters had hacked the email of a police blogger.

The Obama American flag lapel pin story redux! This was sent to me by email this morning, and although according to Snopes.com this story about then Senator Barack Obama is False, it is nonetheless unfortunately and completely believable! File this under 2012 presidential election notes. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction! Yes, he told us in advance what he planned to do. Few were listening....