Sarah Arnott writes in The Independent about the Fujitsu’s withdrawl from the NPfIT:
Fujitsu became the second major supplier to withdraw from the £12bn National Programme for NHS IT yesterday, prompting another round of the perennial game of “why do government technology projects always go wrong?”
Four years since it signed the original £896m deal for upgrading [...]

Anthea Lipsett writes in The Guardian:
Lecturers voted overwhelmingly to oppose and defy the government’s plans to introduce identity cards at the University and College annual congress in Manchester today.
The government plans to pilot the controversial identity cards with international students, which lecturers warned could deter them from choosing to study in the UK.
In January, the [...]

Kevin Maguire writes in the Daily Mirror:
So Brown should chuck out unpopular policies, many are of dubious value.
That means binning the more expensive tax discs on existing cars, this Autumn’s scheduled 2p extra on fuel, identity cards and the illiberal extension without charge detention of terror suspects to 42 days.
And in their place should come [...]

Simon Jenkins writes in The Guardian:
The prime minister has extraordinary executive power and, on present showing, nothing to lose. Unless he needs specific legislation, he can make any decision he likes in the knowledge that, whatever else Labour MPs may do to him, they will not vote him out of power and precipitate an election.
Brown [...]

David Aaronovitch writes in The Times:
And to what purpose does Mr Brown, who wanted it all so much, hang on? Last autumn, even as the original ur-dither was being conjured into existence, it began to appear that Labour post-Blair was being tricksier and more dangerously populist than when Mr Blair had been at the helm. [...]