Etan Smallman writes in The Times: Trust Britain’s youth to be characteristically ungrateful. The Government goes to all the effort of making a website for 16 to 25- year-olds to express their views on identity cards, and all they get in return is a solid mixture of scorn, sneering and scepticism smattered across their fancy [...]
Chris Hastings, Beth Jones and Stephanie Plentl write in The Daily Telegraph: When Gordon Brown called on the British Library to stage an exhibition about Britishness he perhaps envisaged a patriotic celebration of the national identity. What he would not have expected is the resulting event, Taking Liberties, which encourages visitors to contemplate the perilous [...]
Christopher Hope writes in The Daily Telegraph: The personal details of 45,000 people, including dates of birth, criminal records, National Insurance numbers and court information, were lost by a single Government department last year. The Ministry of Justice’s (MoJ) annual accounts show the data was lost in nine separate incidents in the past financial year. [...]
Alan Travis writes in The Guardian: The national identity card scheme faces fresh problems following a warning from the government’s top scientific advisers that the quality of fingerprints from 4 million people aged over 75 may be too poor to be used to prove their identity. The “gold standard” integrity of the national identity scheme [...]
Fergus Shanahan writes in The Sun: But help has to be offered to EVERYONE and not just those receiving child benefit. Handouts are just gimmicks, anyway. And they have to be paid for – usually through tax. We need long-term solutions. Brown should cut petrol and diesel tax, axe wasteful Labour pet projects like ID [...]
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