If You're Nasty, I'll Cross You Off My Christmas Card List

Someone once told me that the most important function of a contact database in a professional environment – such as an architect's practice – is to maintain the Christmas card list. Forget to send one to all the right people at an important client, and their business might be lost.

So it's interesting to note the importance that T Blair assigns to his list. Very very important, apparently. Martin Rosenbaum reports on his Open Secrets blog that the Information Commissioner has ruled that number 10 must reveal which international leaders have been receiving the PM's cards. No. 10 have been fighting the FOI request: [Downing Street's] arguments for keeping the list secret refer to 'private disagreements or tensions with a particular country which meant that a Christmas card was not sent from the Prime Minister'.

We wait for the list with bated breath.