James Lyons writes in the Daily Mirror:
Identity cards have sent government spending on City experts and consultants rocketing to £140million, figures revealed yesterday. It represents a 46% rise on the £96million of taxpayers’ cash the Home Office spent in the previous 12 months.
Officials admitted much of the work was on the controversial ID cards scheme [...]

According to the Mirror’s leader-writer:
A political consensus is building that cuts in some public services will be needed to get debt under control.
But to rob the poor to pay for the mistakes of bankers is grotesquely unfair.
The Government should ditch immediately half-baked proposals to claw back up to £60 a month from tenants on housing [...]

Chris Williams writes in The Register:
Millions could be asked to provide ID card and fingerprint data to get a job under new systems being developed by the Home Office following a collapse in the accuracy of background checks.
News of the plans emerged in the response to a Register Freedom of Information Act request to the [...]

The Orwell Diaries blog publishes entries from George Orwell’s diary daily, 70 years to the day since each entry was originally written. Also included are images of the newspaper articles he refers to. The entry for 17th August 1939 includes a copy of that’s day’s Daily Telegraph article describing preparations for the National Register which [...]

Diane Abbott MP writes on the Guardian’s Comment is Free web site:
DNA evidence has undoubtedly been useful in clearing up crimes of sexual violence and assault. But the government needs to adopt much stricter guidelines in retaining the DNA of innocent people.
So I am pleased to be working with Liberty in holding a series of [...]