I have been receiving odd e-mails, comments etc, that suggest that I might be standing election for a New Nationalist Party, as an Independent Nationalist a Plaid Candidate or even as a Conservative Party Candidate for the Llansanffraid ward of Conwy County Council next May! NONE of these rumours are true! I will vote for and give my wholehearted support to the re-election of Graham (Gas) Rees,

I received many great comments and e-mails, in response to my post a few weeks ago looking for thoughts as to ways the USCG was a national instrument of power and how best to articulate that value to the public.  A standard method at looking at the various elements of national power is to group them in one of four general areas, Diplomacy, Information, Military, and Econom...

Information Commissioner investigates FT evidence suggesting systematic use of private e-mails, which conceal information from civil servants and the public

First, I need to apologize for not engaging with the comments to some of my recent posts here at ID. In particular, the comment thread to this post on a Tokyo Naval Treaty is quite good, and I've also received some good e-mails on the idea. I'm bashing my way through the final stages of a book, however, which has drained the life out of everything else I've been doing. In any case, ...

AN IT firm has told MPs it was aware of nine occasions when News International asked for e-mails to be deleted over the past 15 months, but said it noticed nothing untoward a

Lefty actress and 'activist' Jane Fonda had a appearance scheduled on cable channel QVC to flog her latest book about aging and the life cycle and is absolutely distraught that the network cancelled her spot in response to a flood of calls, e-mails and posts on the channel's community bulletin board saying they would boycott QVC if Fonda appeared. I can't imagine why. All she d...

The politics of the phone hacking saga have changed dramatically in the last 24 hours. Up to now, it has been a scandal that has been of huge interest in political and media circles but hasn’t cut through to the public. But that could all be about to change with the allegation that Milly Dowler’s phone was hacked after she was abducted and voice mails deleted (it should, obviously, be ...

MPs have accused officials of 'acting as PRs for the nuclear industry' after e-mails showed contacts between civil servants and energy companies

Conservative MP Zac Goldsmith insists he was right to take out a super-injunction after e-mails were hacked and passed to newspapers.

People who send me e-mails, expecting me to plug their blogs, addressed to Al, rather than to Dear Mr ap Huw Humphreys piss me off rather than make me laugh! So I was not amused by this plug: Hi Al This should cheer you up you miserable old fart, a news blog but it's meant to make you laugh: