Thanks to the hundred people who took part in last week's poll. The results were that 87% preferred an economic system that makes it easier to become wealthy, as against 13% who preferred one that makes it easier to remain wealthy. As ever, I would like to point out that this is a subtle distinction. All things being equal, high taxes make it more difficult to become wealthy and more difficul...

US regulators are drafting plans to force banks to protect customers better from a surge in online account fraud. Overall identity fraud at banks is costing the system about $700m per quarter, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

The Hansard Society has a new report out which asks the public what they want out of politicians and the political system online. Although many studies have looked at what politicians do or don’t do online, those looking at what the public actually wants are rather rarer. That makes this a particularly welcome report and is

Winding up usage of my old work email address in the last few weeks, after using it for nearly a decade, has given me far more experience than I’ve ever wanted about the idiosyncracies of trying to change your email address on different lists and for different organisations and firms. (Double black marks to the people running

My personal email on the iaindale.com address is temporarily down. On Saturday I changed the DNS settings so you can view the blog at but forgot to change the email settings. That has been done now, but if you want to email me over the next 24 hours it's best to use this email address... iain DOT dale AT totalpolitics DOT com

Stop the War Coalition Temporary email address stopwaruk@gmail.com STOP THE WAR WEBSITE AND EMAIL ATTACKED Stop the war has suffered a serious attack on its internet site, which has been hacked, we assume by supporters of Israel's attacks on Gaza. Our website is down and our usual email address not functioning. We have set up a temporary email address for you to contact Stop the War: stopwaru...

The Attorney General's office says an additional £10m for the Serious Fraud Office was "anticipated".

Can somebody who is able to translate good idiomatic German, quickly, please sign up below. If you can put your email address in the email address box, I’ll be able to get in touch.

Conservative MP Francis Maude today criticised Gordon Brown for not having an email address on the 10 Downing Stret website: “Gordon Brown is spending taxpayers’ money on the latest digital gimmicks, from Twitter to Flickr, but can’t be bothered to give out a simple email address”. Fair enough. But you’d have thought he would give out

I post this without particular expectation, so don't feel compelled to reply. But, have any other bloggers out there had emails threatening to 'spam' your blog? We got one today, and it shocked me. This is what it says - Your I.P address and email address have been reported to your Internet service provider for spamming. Your email address and website will also be spammed. F**k Face...