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The Times journalist James Bone castigated by Kofi Annan at the UN end-of-year press conference has fired back, inevitably, with a story today.
It's clear Mr Bone felt slapped down – hardly surprising since Mr Annan said he was a disgrace to his profession. It is also clear, from my perspective, that Mr Bone knows this. [...]

Kofi Annan is the world's number one diplomat as secretary-general of the United Nations. I recently saw him in action a few times at the World Summit in Tunis and was impressed. As such, it is very rare for him to lose his cool.
But at the end of the year press conference that Annan gave [...]

Now we know why comedian Chris Langham wasn't at the Comedy Awards this week to pick up his two awards for In the Thick of It and Help.
Rather than the explanation that “he really is unwell”, it turns out the poor sod is trying to come to terms with the fact that he was [...]

Forgot yesterday to stick up the latest Technobile I have written for The Guardian.
Continuing with my mild criticism of the sub-editing of the column – I have to say I burst out laughing when I saw that ADSL had been spelt out in the first – the first! – sentence.
The art of sub-editing is [...]

I just don't get Jamie Oliver, TV chef extraordinaire. He seems to be leaping between ever greater peaks of admiration and disgrace, but I really can't see how he can rebound from the frankly disgraceful “flavour shaker” that he is relentlessly advertising on the TV.
This pointless plastic piece of shit is retailing for an incredible [...]

Postings have been a bit scarce of late for the very simple reason that I am on a BBC shooting course this week in North London.
I leave the house at 8am, arrive back at 7pm and still have my Vancouver jet-lag. However, the course is excellent. Really excellent. Learning how to use the Sony [...]

It's all over bar the Board meeting.
And that's exactly where I am – the bar – having what I hope will be a long, long-deserved lunch. Unfortunately I'm sat and eating alone since it's 3pm and most of the delegates have high-tailed it out of the hotel to try to enjoy at least half [...]

I'm sat in the main ballroom during the public comment meeting with ICANN, and travel journalist Edward Hasbrouck has just made a very solid and interesting intervention.
Mr Hasbrouck is a relentless investigative journalist – as ICANN staff have found out – and has been very carefully following the process surrounding the new .travel domain.
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According to my computer's calendar, I have been in Vancouver for three days. And according to a search on the Internet, I have written six stories about events at the ICANN conference here.
Which is all incredibly useful because on sitting down in the press room at the Westin Hotel, my horribly jet-lagged mind casually [...]

I have finally got hold of the letter from US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to the EU in November that outlined in no uncertain terms how seriously the US was taking the Internet governance issue – and how determined it was to stick with the status quo.
While it is obviously direct, it may [...]