Philip Johnston writes in the Daily Telegraph:
Normally when the British get irritated, we respond with a resigned and embarrassed shrug rather than shout and bellow. We are not like the French who take to the streets at the drop of a hat to chuck cobblestones at the police. But our characteristic mildness as a nation [...]
Iain Dale, writing on the Guardian’s Comment is Free web site, says the Government uses a false dichotomy between Liberty and Security to suppress civil liberties:
On the back of this argument, Labour has passed more criminal justice laws than were passed in the previous 100 years. More than 3,000 new criminal offences have been created, [...]
Neil Collins writes in his Reuters column about Standard & Poor’s evaluation of the British economy’s “negative outlook”, the usual precursor to a downgrade of S&P’s rating of an issuer’s debt:
As the rating agency’s reality check concludes: “A government debt burden [of nearly 100 percent of GDP] if sustained, would in S&P’s view be incompatible [...]
John Oates writes in The Register:
The Home Office has confirmed there is still no timetable for the rollout of ID card readers, without which carrying out effective ID checks is impossible.
So even though the government is continuing to foist the cards on foreigners, airside workers at City of London and Manchester airports and pilots, there [...]
According to The Register:
In response to questions from GC News, the IPS said the National Biometric Identity Store (NBIS), which will be built by the Identity and Passport Service under a £265m contract with IBM, will hold both the original images and the derived templates of faces and fingerprints of applicants for passports, identity cards [...]
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