Andy Rowell

For years, the oil industry and its powerful friends in Congress talked of a shale gas utopia where fracking would lead to energy independence in for US.

The Lima UN climate talks which open today were always the diplomatic aperitif before the main three course carbon-fest in Paris next year. However they open with a renewed sense of optimism that after 20 years of delay and political deadlock – often driven by the fossil fuel industry – a deal may well be in sight for Paris.

It has often been called the heart of public relations: but the third party technique is simple – it is putting your words in someone else’s mouth.

As more and more of us search for news and information online, PR companies and their clients are increasingly trying to manipulate what you read.

A new wave of anger, manifesting in large protests, is sweeping through Nigeria’s Ogoni region.

I discovered recently that I was being spied on by BP.