Quote Originally Posted by walesrob View Post
So if I am using an email hosting service who is based in New York (Tuffmail if you've ever heard of it), and has servers in America, and I send email always through their own secure SMTP servers not my ISP email servers, surely my ISP cannot trace any emails I send.
Yup, you're pretty hidden from the eyes of the UK government. Whether you're hidden from the eyes of the US government is another question...