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BT, Talk Talk and Virgin are all signed up to use Phorm -which reads the websites visited by customers and then targets adverts to them based on the content of those sites. The information which appears on your screen as you browse will be accessible by your ISP -this is almost exactly the [...]

Time for a holiday to America. If you haven’t been taken in by offers of store cards, credit cards with 18% interest or mortgages that will go up by hundreds of pounds this summer, it might be a rather opportune time to check out flights to the US of A. While the collapse of the [...]

British MPs have today passed a bill to allow drivers to travel on the hard shoulder of some motorways during times of congestion, but is this a safe and responsible thing to do? And, if it is, what on earth did road builders make hard shoulders for in the first place?
The hard shoulder has long [...]

The World’s Greatest Blog has today announced that it will recognise the newly independent state of Kosovo. Countries such as Spain are opposed to recognising this self-declared sovereign state for fears of encouraging domestic secession. However, The World’s Greatest Blog agrees with Woodrow Wilson that every nation should have a state -aligning it with Britain, [...]

Gung hei fat choy! Today marks the beginning of a fifteen day celebration to mark the Year of the Rat. 7th February is a new moon and the festival will end with the full moon on Friday 22nd February -the Lantern Festival.
Those rats amongst us will now be 1, 13, 25, 37, 49, 61, 73, [...]

Here’s a note I received from an acquaintance who has recently been in Nairobi, Kenya and is now in Zimbabwe. Both countries are currently experiencing social upheaval:
Welcome to Zimbabwe
This is the second time I’ve typed this general email to you all. The first time the electricity supply cut off just as I hit send. The [...]

Heath Ledger was reported to have died yesterday by times-online. I have to say that I was actually quite sad though I am not normally moved by the lives of celebrities. Apparently his family are denying drug abuse, but details aside, Heath was a brilliant Aussie actor with some fantastic domestic credentials as well [...]

Watching the Countryfile weather forecast for this week on I-player, I was quite amused at how little variation there was on the word “rain”.
How many ways can you say it’s going to rain, all week, everywhere? The weatherman looked positively relieved to be able to report snow.
I knew the rain was bad this morning when [...]

Without commenting on the Sudanese legal system, I noticed a rather hypocritical approach on the part of the British media and public with regard to the school teacher who allowed a teddy bear to be named Mohammed. The tabloid press and grumblers in the pub, all complain about immigrants who fail to learn our language, [...]

Following the previously published discussion with a friend of mine regarding nuclear proliferation and a bit more research, I filed this copy with The Epoch Times and the following article was duly published internationally.

Grounds for a new security paradigm have emerged from an international conference tackling the problem of nuclear terrorism.
At the International Conference on [...]