Through the confessional system, the Catholic church spied upon the lives of its congregants. While Latin mass excluded most people who could not speak Latin from an understanding of the very system of thought that bound them.

Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.

All over the world, the barriers between what is inside an organisation and outside an organisation are being smoothed out. In the military, the use of contractors means that what is the military and what is not the military is smoothed out.

Often it's the case that we have to do a lot of exploration and marketing of the material we publish ourselves to get a big political impact for it.

We are often celebrating technology and codes, but we don't really think about the creative side.

You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people's command of English - that's nonsense.

The inexorable rise of the Internet and the citizen journalist presents us all with challenges for the future.

A lot of music fans are still interested in insightful perspectives on music - maybe even more interested than ever, since everyone needs help making sense of the incredible variety of sounds that have sprung up in the wake of the Internet revolution. There's a lot of room for unique, qualified voices who can provide good reads.