The Register carefully deconstructs Charles Clarke’s recent 343-word parliamentary answer to find out what he really said: We now propose to demonstrate how Clarke, who announced the £30, the report and the KPMG analysis in a written answer to a parliamentary question on 13th October, was to all intents and purposes misleading the House. We [...]
AC Grayling, writing in The Times, presents an excellent summary of the case against compulsory ID cards linked to a National Identity Register: Tomorrow the ID cards Bill returns to Parliament for its report stage. It is surprising that this profoundly ill-conceived measure has got this far, so unanimous has been the opposition to it [...]
Life Style Extra reports figures from London Chamber of Commerce’s quarterly Monitor survey showing that business leaders’ support for compulsory ID cards has “plummeted” in the wake of the July terror attacks on London. Now just a quarter (26 per cent) of company directors believe that introducing ID cards would prove to be beneficial to [...]
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