14March
Geoffrey Wheatcroft posits that Michael Levy is going to be the scapegoat because he is jewish. Balderdash. If Mr. Levy is to have his reputation run into the ground - and the police, never mind the jury, is still out on that one - it will not be because of his links with The GOD Organisation. No, it'll be because he has behaved in a criminal manner, adding Selling Peerages to his long list of criminal records. He should have stopped with the complete back catalogue of Alvin Stardust.
Data Mining reveals that G****e mail Doesn't Work. The privacy-sapping messaging system is trying to surpress text that might have been seen before, but is completely botching the job. The correct answer, of course, is to eschew G****e mail, and use a proper email system that doesn't steal other people's messages and add them to a huge information corpus.
Martin Belam, meanwhile, wonders who regulates G****e adverts? In theory, it's the Advertising Standards Authority, or OFCOM, but would these domestic authorities cut the mustard with the insular Washingtonnes?
What what what? Apparently, there are still backwards countries where it is a disciplinary offence to encourage police to tape-record interviews with suspects. Do these people have no intention of preventing abuses of power? It's an open book for coercion, torture, and generalised lying.
Marcel Berlins is unhappy about the looming casino advertising. Why can't the government be honest in this area? Because a) it's the New Labour government, congenitally incapable of telling the truth about anything; and b) it's advertisers, a group of people who make M. Kahn look straight.
Het Grauniad investigates how Lidl breaks the law and cares not a jot for its staff. We've never set foot in one of their stores, and don't expect to.
Yet again, Matt Howie caves in to legal threats from people purporting to represent Thomas "Tom" Cruise Mapother. Quite why Mr. Mapother doesn't want any discussion of genetic abnormalities he may or may not have is entirely beyond us.
The Atlantic Lottery of Canada finds its retailers are ten times luckier than expected. This is prima facie evidence that the system there is corrupt. Can other operators honestly claim that everything is above board?
