By Denis Campbell
The UK House of Commons today takes up a measure to stop music and video piracy on the Web. Good luck with that one.
While an admirable pursuit, they are only 15-years too late and now only George Orwell could applaud this Big Brother, bone-headed attempt.
Closing down Internet sites and ISP access will makes [...]

By Denis Campbell
In three months the UK will contest a general election. Wow! Can you feel the tension build… Zzzzzzzz.
Three months out from November of 2008, US candidate Barack Obama spoke before 85,000 people at the Democratic National Convention’s outdoor football stadium. Here? The three parties reluctantly and finally agreed to their set of televised [...]

By Denis Campbell
The little guy/gal is fighting back against corporate sloth and this week they got a huge boost. The US state of New Mexico joined the fledgling “Move Your Money” movement most fat-cat bankers sneered at and voted 65-0 to move $2-$5 billion dollars in state money to community banks and credit unions in [...]

by Carl Matthes
About the same time (1948) that Democratic U.S. President Harry S. Truman was ordering the desegregation of America’s military, the government of South Africa was instituting “apartheid.” The South African Dutch and English occupiers/ransackers (think today’s fictional “Avatar”), were moving in an opposite direction to emerging American and International codes of conduct. They [...]

by Denis Campbell
We’ve had further reaction (that seems to have had two iterations and he did not delete his 1st draft before sending?) from Patrick Duffy, the Managing Director of Cardiff Airport.
Here I thought this afternoon would be dedicated to catching up and writing an Obama Year-1 story for later in the week.
Once again, the [...]

By Denis Campbell
Last week’s story about the Bosch plant closing contained four lines about Cardiff Airport. We suggested the facility is broken and may need nationalisation. That prompted a reply from the airport’s Managing Director, Patrick Duffy. (His full e-mail appears as an image and as full text below the story). My response:
Dear Mr. Duffy:
I find [...]

By Denis Campbell
“Cold enough for you?” “Yes, quite. Now go ____ yourself,” would be an appropriate local reply. Mostly though I behave like the gang of diabolical penguins in the animated film Madagascar, “just smile and wave boys, smile and wave.”
Today, sitting in an Amsterdam airport hotel room (thanks to the good folks at Hilton [...]

by Glyn Strong
“We’ve got to do all we can to raise awareness of this so that people will know what is going on – but more importantly, so that the Iraqi Government knows that the world is watching and that if what they did in July is repeated there’s going to be, again, a huge [...]

By Denis Campbell
Congratulations, you won. You have no more bottom line to manage or expenses to cut so time to focus on swiftly building Wales’ top line. One only need walk past your constituent office in Bridgend to see that 1 in 4 storefronts lay empty (or leased by charity thrift shops). Economic growth is [...]

By Denis Campbell
Fat Lady? Back to those wings and no humming! This opera is not over.
Those in the Conservative party already measuring drapes at Number 10 need to remember this will be a contested election vs. a Tory coronation. The display on the steps of the Welsh Senedd the morning after Conservative wins in [...]