Breaking news about a horrific breach of process that has led to 25 million records going astray between the Revenue and Customs, and the National Audit Office. Clearly somebody in the organisation screwed up horrifically, and is probably nursing a P45 and watching our most senior politicians defend themselves with a very very bad sinking [...]
I imagine - hope even - that a lot of people were taken aback to hear the news today that a ’senior judge’ is calling for everybody to be put on the DNA database. The main reason cited it’d be ‘fairer’ than the widely acknowledged to be broken and unfair system, where anybody arrested by [...]
The Repeal vote has opened with a truly disappointing shortlist that is sure to appeal to middle-England, but is sadly reactionary and horribly predictable in it’s contents. Listening yesterday to the (disappointing) panel wafting it’s way through the nominations, and brushing aside the opportunity to push the debate in interesting directions, I soon lost hope [...]
I heard Radio Four are looking for nominations of laws that should be repealed, and no2id Glasgow’s timely e-mail coaxed me in to action. So regular readers won’t, of course, be surprised to read that I’ve nominated the Identity Card Act 2006 as the single worst piece of legislation that’s appeared in years for the way [...]
Excellent piece in The Register arguing that ID Cards could actually be dead in this parliament. Whilst I fear that too much political capital has been associated with ID Cards to write it off, the piece extrapolates the available information nicely, factoring in the likely forthcoming political events. This starts next week with Reid’s Home [...]
Following on from the news that Whitehall staffers are concerned about the scheme, the wider media is beginning to pick things up, including the BBC. I had seen this excellent piece in the Guardian only moments before my friend Ben sent it over to me suggesting I link to it. It does an excellent job of [...]
El Reg has an article that ID Cards may be doomed, according to some leaked e-mails from Whitehall. This was originally broken by the Sunday Times. Well, it’s a welcome beating with the reality stick for Mr Blair’s lackys. Countless people, including myself, have been writing, campaigning, and generally doing everything we can to say it’s [...]
It seems a bit hard to believe at first, but it’s happening. Schools across the country are compulsorily fingerprinting children without the consent of the parents. It seems to be with regards some supposed library system, but it seems rather over the top, and that it’s without the consent of parents beggars belief. Especially [...]
Due to the Lords-cave-in (”they’re not elected so they have no say”, but barely a third of the UK voted for the Government as is, due to the broken first-past-the-post system we’re stuck with) with some half-hearted compromise on a poor definition of ‘compulsion’, we’re now looking very clearly down the barrel of ID Cards [...]
So there we have it. The rebellion on the ID Cards bill was quashed as The Leader In Waiting made the necessary noises, plus a few supposed “compromises” were, for the Government at least, well aimed to give what few rebels there were in the sycophantic back benches of the Labour party, an utterly misplaced [...]
