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

It is entirely possible to be “an arrogant jerk with an ego complex the size of Texas” and still know what you are talking about.

I saw this in my feed reader from the Conservative Cornerstone Group… That little teaser sounds like the post could’ve been a chuckle, but it’s been removed for some reason. Maybe Edward Leigh realised he was talking bollox as usual.

Ed Miliband will today (Monday) accuse the Government of directly damaging frontline patient care with its unnecessary and unwanted top-down reorganisation of the NHS. Talking today about frontline pressure right across the NHS, he will point to new figures released by Labour that show the number of NHS nurses has now fallen by 3,500 since the general election and that indicate the total fall in n...

I know I harp on about income disparity and how it has widened since the mid-seventies. There others who do see this as the major problem in society today, and not least of these are those attending Davos this year. Listen to Gillian Tett of the Financial Times talking about this on BBC’s This Week.

It was in May 2011 that the allegation first surfaced that, eight years previously, Chris Huhne had allegedly asked his then wife Vicky Pryce to take the rap for speeding points that would have seen the aspirant Lib Dem MP for Eastleigh lose his licence. It’s a charge Chris has strenuously denied ever since, always

Joe Kennedy always claimed he'd avoided the crash of 1929 by getting out of the market as soon as he noticed that even shoe shine boys were talking about hot shares. His logic was that as soon as everyone started piling into the market, shares prices would cease to reflect real underlying values and instead they'd bubble up right until the inevitable correction. In the same spirit, I think I see t...

Talking to a business contact of mine earlier today, the subject of the Levenson enquiry concerning the alleged hacking of persons' phones by journalists/others came up. One thing that was mentioned was that the corruption of certain police officers, and possibly other officials with access to important data, highlights the dangers of aggregating large amounts of important data into a few pla...

Yesterday’s Press Gazette  highlights that the Panorama programme broadcast, entitled Secrets of the Tory Billionaire, on Monday night may help the Independent defend the libel case brought against it by Lord Ashcroft. In a development that you couldn’t make up, the Independent, in its own coverage of the programme,  referred to Lord Ashdown when talking

Experts warn that buying off-the-shelf does not make sense when talking about big defence procurement programmes