According to Tom Harris, the Scottish version of the Hatemail on Sunday has published an article under the headline “Proof at last… our MPs really …

Gordon Brown is going to give us “online powers” to rate our public services such as GPs, police, childcare and councils. He says that it …

Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard

The Northern Monkey feature has, once again, been noticeable by its absence. However, I once again have an excuse.
My long suffering laptop finally croaked its …

Emails waste an hour a day of an office worker’s time. This is not really all that surprising. I get tons of emails every day, …

One of my interests (and aims of the blog) is to encourage participation in politics as widely as possible. At least two of the three main parties have been talking about training, including media training, for younger members. The Liberal Democrats are talking about why their Leadership Academy should train everyone as they are all potential leaders.

Meanwhile, the Young Britons’ Foundation ran a training day at the Conservative Party Conference for young activists. Mike Rouse has kindly written an account for the Wardman Wire.

The internet, says it’s [British] creator ‘needs a way to help people separate rumour from real science’.
Erm, why? People have brains. And, guess what, they …

I’ve been using Chrome for a few days now, and I like it. It is a lot cleaner looking than Firefox is, and loads quite …

Due to a variety of reasons, in the past week I’ve not had to chance to glance at a newspaper (Well, slight lie, I read …

Gordon Brown has launched a new gimmick initiative – and an online one at that!
Ask The PM.

Politicians get a chance in prime ministers question time …