Tom Shepherd writes in the Oxford Mail:
Campaigners fighting the Government’s plans for ID cards are claiming a victory after four Labour candidates seeking election to Oxford City Council on Thursday opposed the scheme.
And today, city councillor and Lord Mayor John Tanner, who is seeking re-election in his Littlemore seat, told Oxford campaign group NO2ID he [...]

Peter Facey writes in on the Guardian Comment is Free site about the publication of Stuart Wilks-Heeg’s report on UK elections:
One temptation the government must resist is to respond to demands for greater ballot security by waving the national identity card in our faces. Sadly, I would not be at all surprised if the government [...]

Owen Bowcott writes in The Guardian:
Airline passengers are to be screened with facial recognition technology rather than checks by passport officers, in an attempt to improve security and ease congestion, the Guardian can reveal.
From summer, unmanned clearance gates will be phased in to scan passengers’ faces and match the image to the record on the [...]

Matthew Cookson writes in Socialist Worker:
The PCS civil service workers’ union has pledged to combat any plans for compulsory redundancies in the Glasgow Identity and Passport Service (IPS).
Management has announced that it wants to axe 100 jobs from the department’s Cowcaddens site.
Paul McGoay, the PCS IPS group president, told Socialist Worker, “A 90-day consultation period [...]

John Kampfner writes in the Daily Telegraph:
Labour MPs wonder whether Brown really believes that detaining terrorist suspects for up to 42 days is part of his mission. Does he really love identity cards? Does he genuinely believe that renewing the Trident nuclear system is worth the tens of billions of pounds? Does he salivate at [...]