Emma Barnett

The new EU laws do not go far enough and tackle how to control what regular web users write or post about others, without their permission, online. New EU laws announced yesterday, which mean social networking sites and companies will be forced to delete inaccurate or embarrassing information about people online should be applauded. But [...]

On this week’s show we had a staggering response to a discussion about proposed changes to the Child Protection Agency. Iain Duncan Smith, the Work and Pensions Minister, has defended the idea of charging to use the agency, which secures maintenance for children from absent parents, and levying a tax on each payment the department [...]

Unbelievably Debretts, the chroniclers of decorum and social etiquette, have produced their first divorce guide: The Debrett’s Guide for Civilised Separation. But can such an emotional break-up ever be amicable or handled with decorum? The majority of you who called or wrote in to my LBC show this week, didn’t think so and thanks so much [...]

I visit Asian restaurant Inamo, where technological innovations have rendered waiters almost redundant. Accelerating technological developments have undoubtedly made communicating and accessing content the quickest and most efficient it has ever been. However, most would probably argue that some aspects of our lives don’t need further technological interference – like, say, visiting a restaurant. But [...]

For the last six months I have been filming a new tech show for Sky 1 called Gadget Geeks. (disclaimer – i am not one of the geeks as you will read below). Here’s my take on the whole experience for The Telegraph: “When the team behind Sky 1’s Gadget Geeks asked me to present the show [...]

A climate summit in Durban has ended with agreement to bring down carbon emissions to save the planet. A deadline of 2020 could yet prove a cop-out. But do we need to be so concerned about emissions? Is fear of global warming holding back much-needed development? In this month’s Interrogator, I grill George Monbiot, environmental [...]

I had the great honour of winning the digital journalist of the year award at the Association of Online Publishers 2011 Awards ceremony. Essentially the Oscars of the digital journalism world, it was a wonderful night for me and The Telegraph Media Group, which walked away with a total of four awards. Celebrations and lots [...]

The Education Secretary’s plan to do away with ‘dull and harmful’ technology lessons in schools cannot happen too soon. Everyone my age remembers information technology (IT) lessons at school as an absolute joke. Forty minutes of our precious young lives each week were wasted by a clueless teacher reading off a sheet in a bid [...]

Rupert Murdoch, the chairman and chief executive of News Corporation, had no option but to join Twitter after his annus horribilis during 2011. Just when you thought every high profile person possible had joined Twitter, from US president Barack Obama, to the Dalai Lama, along comes @rupertmurdoch. Yes that’s right, the octogenarian media mogul has officially joined [...]

Here’s a sneak peak of the show….I particularly like the clip of me slapping my co-host Rory across the face. All in the name of slow-motion cameras of course!