Is My Phone Being Tapped ?
Is my telephone being tapped or is my mobile phone being hacked ?
Is your host getting paranoid ?
No, I have real concerns . . . I’ve just read a report that potentially 1,000s of celebrities and famous people may have been the victim of newspapers tapping their phones and hacking their cell phones !
This could mean me 
The Sunday tabloid newspaper The News of the World is embroiled in a pit of sleaze involving their journalists, private investigators and the hacking of mobile phone mail and message boxes.
Whilst I don’t find any surprise or amusement in the story the most telling aspect is just how quiet nearly all the other newspapers are about it.
Even their bitterest rivals don’t seem to want to jump on the story and bury the NOTW - I wonder why . . . ?
Anyhoo, this does little to settle my concerns 
What’s it gotta do with you Cornball you heckle
Well, when you’re famous these things could be an issue. Being an an anonymous member of the proletariat you can’t possibly understand the pressures on the likes of us in the public eye.
Take Friday (absolutely true) for example, I walked into a museum, discretely dressed and without a minder - pretty low-key in fact, but I couldn’t go unnoticed.
Er, are you Rod Collins ? said somebody I’d never met before !
Ah, Rod Collins dot com isn’t it said somebody else shortly after
Aye Caramba !
I was recognized by security guards later on but in the Usher Gallery this time, although in fairness that was because last time I was there I tried to walk out with a Joshua Reynolds under my arm. It was only my insistence that they couldn’t stop me as I was acting under orders from Oliver Cromwell that eventually saw me leave without The Rozzers being called - rather selfishly they wouldn’t let me keep the Reynolds though 
No doubt you’re shocked at this but it’s happened before as regulars will remember - who said I’d never amount to anything
I’m sure National Newsreader Helen Fospero would be proud of me - I mean how many people do you know who have been banned by an entire country \m/
On a serious note, it really is quite incredible how small the internet has made the world and the possibilities open to so many people who once one never would have any such chance of meeting or making contact with.
It’s quite staggering when I think of the people I’m interacting with from all walks of life and all corners of the world (the world’s not only flat but square as well by the way) - it’s east to be blasé and think of it as normal but really it’s quite incredible.
Now if only CJ Miles would email me again - I know we could be so happy together - I could even take her to my favourite museums and historical fields
Best Wishes to all - wherever you are
Rod - The Wybers-Wood Village Idiot
