Raymond Snoddy tells a story that rather eloquently illustrates just how large an issue privacy is becoming and how things can go seriously awry when the marketing community gets it even inadvertently wrong…

Raymond Snoddy: Jeremy Hunt has truly understood the benefits of delay in the political world – sometimes the most intractable problems can go away if you just leave them long enough. Time to take advantage & refer BSkyB/Murdoch to the Competition Commission; and as for the great local television project, endless delay would not be too long…

Raymond Snoddy says finding a solution to the current super-injunction mess, farce, brouhaha will not be easy, particularly when it is difficult to define what is in the public interest v what the public is interested in (though actually what the public is interested in is a better starting place than is generally supposed)…

Raymond Snoddy: In a number of important respects Salford has been mishandled by BBC management but walk into MediaCity and you don’t have to be too imaginative to see a future production hub taking shape that could in time give London a run for its money.

Raymond Snoddy on Max Mosely’s European Court failure, the anonymous Twitterer who blew apart the increasing misuse of super-injunctions, and the hackettes from the Daily Telegraph who enticed Vince Cable to express bile and bias against Rupert Murdoch…

Raymond Snoddy wonders whether the US President was too busy on Friday watching the Royal Wedding to be bothered about matters such as Al Qaeda…

Raymond Snoddy: “It takes less than two minutes on Google to find out who the mystery, married actor in the Wayne Rooney prostitute case is… A child could work it out – particularly a child.”

Raymond Snoddy on what is becoming an increasingly controversial issue but something which most people barely know exists – search engine penalties. Is it time to extract from the mighty Google greater search engine transparency and fairness?

Raymond Snoddy: Rule number one in the government PR rule book – just before a recess, or during it if you think you can get away with it, is an absolutely brilliant time for releasing unpalatable news… So we can expect the BSkyB announcement in around two weeks then Mr Hunt?

“This hack of a certain age finally got it on May 21st 2009 with the help of a digitally literate son… One thousand, two hundred and twenty two tweets later…”