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The reason why more women don’t blog
Where is our UK Arianna? Iain asks today why women don't blog on political issues, why are 90% of them men. I've looked at my blogroll and wondered the same, I only have two women bloggers there, including the USA Queen of Blogs, my Greek Goddess of the Huff Post. The...
My call from The Times and internet censorship
I had a call from Will Pavia of The Times yesterday. He wanted a Tory quote about the British film censors' suggestion that internet sites should have classification similar to films to warn users about porno sites and foul language. He had seen my name at the top of...
Today’s literary theme – txt poetry
A txtickle from txtcafe I must admit to being a bit square when it comes to today's yoof culture and the complicated txt code used on mobile phones. I still stick to the Queen's English on the whole. Not so award winning poet and author Silver who has penned two...
Shocking true cost of Miliband’s blog is £40,000 p.a.
Do you remember the shockwaves that reverberated when I revealed that Minister Miliband's blog cost £6,000 to set up while Boris, like the rest of us lesser mortals, blogs for free? It now transpires that he was being economical with the truth. According to Pandora...
Trudy can move mountains
If anyone can move mountains, it is Trudy Lapinskis. In spite of having the UK's worst case of a rare neurological syndrome and suffering considerable pain, her only thought is to raise awareness among the medical professionals so others are spared the same agony. She...
Adam Rickitt hoping to turn Norwich blue
Prince Charming in waiting A-lister Adam Rickitt will be hoping to turn Norwich blue when he turns on the charm this Christmas in the city's panto Cinderella. Norwich has two Labour MPs, including the sacked former Home Secretary Charles Clarke, who is somewhat...
“I hope George Osborne reads this blog”
George Osborne hopes Britain will emerge with its own Silicon Valley Earlier this week George Osborne asked why there was no British Yahoo or Google, why we were not home to the fastest growing community websits like MySpace, where were the British giants of...
Brazil 1 – 0 England for biofuels industry
Our cars could be run on fuel produced from this oil seed rape crop Brazil are already the world leaders when it comes to biofuels - running a third of their cars on "alcohol" - their catchy name for ethanol (we will have to wait and see how they compare to us with...
Would you give up your day job to become a professional blogger?
Would you be brave enough to give up your day job to become a professional blogger? That's what Tom Foremski did two years ago. He followed his gut instinct and gave up a six figure salary and six weeks paid holiday as an FT reporter to do so. His Silicon Valley...