I still get the round robin of emails from some of the parliamentary Conservative candidates I worked with during last year's general election, it's always good to hear their news. One came today from the ebullient Mike Penning, MP for Hemel Hemstead, who worked his...

Still on a high after yesteday's excitement, I headed off to Cambridge to lunch and network with an eclectic mix of businesswomen from the Cambridge Women's Lunch Club. It's not as twee as it sounds. Cambridge isn't that kind of place, it's a high calibre group of...

I would like to thank the organisers of yesterday's blogging brainstorming conference for a great day with great food and hospitality. And, of course, the chance to talk a language with like minded people that arouses blank stares from virtually everyone I meet. We...

Off to the Blogging4Business conference today, hope to see you there. I have an interview lined up with Guillaume Champeau, project manager of AgoraVox, on citizen journalism. He believes that in five years, the publishing world will have changed so thoroughly that...

In 1970, when Brits wore bellbottoms, platform shoes, a white disco suit and danced the night away to John Travolta, unimaginable horrors were being inflicted in Vietnam. Spraying the jungles with Agent Orange, a toxic defoliant, was one of them. The legacy of this...

The everyday life of an Iraqi woman who kept a blog has been published as a book. It gives a graphic insight into how her life has been transformed by the invasion, the loss of her job and freedom. The computer science graduate, alias Riverbend, has given an...

So it took the News of the World to tell us why Boris is too busy to write his blog. I would like to know if the whistle blower who dished the dirt also travelled on two wheels in hot pursuit of Boris, eyes firmly fixed to his or her watch. How else were all his...

Men with beards and pale, interesting ladies are being sought by a film company to star in a blockbuster sequal to the Oscar-winning film Elizabeth. Filming will take place on my doorstep and this weekend talent scouts were out recruiting extras. Between 400-500 are...

Grant Shapps has given his Welwyn Hatfield constituents a visible voice. And what an "explosive" voice it has turned out to be. During last year's election campaign, he fully embraced new technology and used webcams to get his message across. He was not short of...