ZDnet reports:
Home secretary Jacqui Smith has said that 1,142 messages from the public to the Identity and Passport Service (IPS) between November 2006 and October 2008 were classified as ‘wants an ID card’. This made ID-card requests “by far the most common subject matter”, Smith said on Thursday, in response to a parliamentary question from [...]
What sort of people will have access to the databases containing everyone’s details?
Ordinary people. Fallible, corruptible, and – yes, sometimes – criminal people.
People like this.
A middle-ranking civil servant was convicted of murdering the son of his former lover in revenge when she ended their relationship… Paul, who was a civil servant responsible for the child [...]
Theresa May responds to reader’s questions in The Spectator:
“There has been a lot of comment about the Damien Green case and how this relates to MP’s specific rights as the opposition. I’m concerned that MP’s are considering themselves a special case instead of considering the overall civil liberties perspective of such an overbroad law. Do [...]
Simon Jenkins writes in The Guardian about large, centralised public administration projects:
Anyone inquiring after the £12bn NHS computer will know that this useless piece of equipment has nothing to do with efficiency or public benefit. It is merely the ultimate macho investment, a vast contract suitable for real men to play with, bespeaking big jobs [...]
Nick Cowan writes in the Yorkshire Post, advocating direct democracy:
Referendums up until now in Britain have had to be triggered by Parliament, so the Government can pick and choose when to hold one. But a popular referendum mechanism would allow a petition of citizens to demand a ballot on any law passed by Parliament, giving [...]
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