Reuters reports: The plan to bring in national identity cards in the world’s most ambitious biometric scheme of its kind will cost 5.4 billion pounds over the next 10 years, the government announced on Monday. The “announcement” is actually the first of a series of “Dobson Reports” the government is being forced to make as [...]
Patrick Hennessy writes in the Sunday Telegraph: Identity cards are to be presented as a crucial weapon in the fight against illegal immigrants in a significant change of tack by ministers. Until now, senior figures led by Tony Blair have insisted that the main reason for pressing ahead with the controversial programme is that ID [...]
Diane Abbott MP writes in The Voice: Tony Blair bows out as Labour leader soon. And this week was his last speech to the Labour party conference. The Labour party is a deeply sentimental party, so it was a profoundly emotional occasion. But putting sentiment to one side, it is worth asking how much did [...]
Iain Macwhirter writes in The Herald: Two disturbing developments this week. I found myself thinking that George Osborne gave a better speech than Gordon Brown, and that the Tories are to be more trusted on civil liberties than Labour. Strange days. Of course, political cross-dressing is just one of the tactics of modern, or rather [...]
Philippe Naughton writes in The Times about David Cameron’s speech at the Conservative Party Conference: Mr Cameron opened his speech with an attack on Labour for “nine years of centralisation, gimmick and spin”, listing a long litany of “eyecatching initiatives” that never got off the drawing board. The latest among them was its plan to [...]
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