We will change the law that allows councils to snoop on people for trivial matters.

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Earlier talks dealt with practical but trivial matters, such as how to deal with lost mail.

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In the weeks after the Alabama shootings, several former colleagues and neighbors came forward, describing various altercations with Amy, mostly over trivial matters.

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And earlier this year, trivial matters like his decision to grow a beard and wear it on-screen was a matter for press speculation.

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Meanwhile the chairman of the Standards and Privileges Committee, Sir George Young, warned against MPs making complaints over what were essentially trivial matters.

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This is true for trivial as well as important matters, because even trivial information that finds its way from the boardroom to the press corrodes trust among directors.

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Gossip, generally speaking, is the trivial workplace talk that spreads sensational or intimate matters around the office.

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The point of this little though experiment is to ask how can we focus our attention on the innovation that really matters and not get tangled in these trivial rubber bands?

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While Fry briefly dropped his jovial persona to concentrate on more serious matters, it was left to Tarantino and Hathaway to contemplate the trivial (or not so trivial, depending on your point of view).

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Are they reporting on matters of interest to the U.S. government or are they too busy filing reports on trivial developments?

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