David Neal writes in The Inquirer:
According to the UK’s Identity Minister, the Government’s ID cards won’t be worth the paper they’ll be printed on.
Despite the fact that the cards are almost in UK citizens’ wallets there is still a lot of work needed to raise awareness about them and their uses, particularly outside the British [...]
Matthew Parris writes in The Times:
Licensed fraud
But back to the Pyrenees, where I’ve just been talking to another English climber, a student aged 19.
“Seen this,” he asked, and pulled his driving licence from his pocket. “Spot anything wrong?”
I couldn’t. It looked like the real thing: one of those pinkish laminated cards, with photograph and details. [...]
Tom Whitehead writes in the Daily Telegraph:
Tory MP Damian Green has won a battle with police to have his DNA profile removed from the national database.
In a case that will prompt widespread calls for the records of hundreds of thousands of innocent people to be deleted, the shadow immigration minister successfully argued that he was [...]
Anthony Horowitz, the creator of TV programme ‘Foyle’s War’, writes in the Daily Telegraph:
In fact, between 1939 and 1945, 178,000 indictable offences were created for the inhabitants of England and Wales, a figure quoted by Angus Calder in his incomparable social history, ‘The People’s War’.
All of which is, of course, a gift for a [...]
Alan Johnson MP writes in the Observer about Conservative party policy:
On identity cards, which they advocated at the last election, they are now in the ludicrous position of supporting the new biometric passports (which, as Gordon Brown has made clear, can be used instead of an ID card), but opposing the National Identity Register that [...]
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