Lucy Ward writes in The Guardian: A giant electronic database containing sensitive information on all 11 million children in England will be open to at least 330,000 users when it launches next year, according to government guidance. A final consultation on the plan reveals that the index, intended to help children’s services work together more [...]
Nicholas Watt writes in The Observer: David Cameron today launches an audacious bid to dislodge Gordon Brown as the champion of progressive politics in Britain when he declares that the Tories are best placed to tackle poverty and to protect the environment. … Cameron added: ‘The Conservative party is this force for progressive politics. Ask [...]
According to the Daily Mail: The cost of a British passport is to rise for the third time in less than two years, ministers announced today. Charges for a standard 10-year adult passport will increase from £66 to £72 in October. Until December 2005 the travel document cost £42, meaning that when the new fees [...]
Chris Atkins writes in the Daily Mail: There has been an unprecedented shift of power away from the individual towards the state – but now this power is being used not to defeat terrorism, but to keep tabs on ordinary citizens. As well as a raft of repressive anti-terror legislation, there are the more insidious [...]
Anthony Barnett, writing on the OurKingdom web site, has been asking the six candidates for the Labour deputy leadership their views on ID cards, amongst other constitutional issues: The introduction of ID cards is creating great opposition to a ‘database state’. What is your view of the concerns raised by ID cards? Peter Hain: We [...]
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