Alan Bentley, chairman of the Childcare Corporation, writes in Nursery World magazine about the Independent Safeguarding Authority :
Correctly worded legislation is probably the best frontline protection available to those responsible for children in a commercial or state-run environment, but I am far from sure that it should further erode the ever-declining status of parents by [...]
According to the ZDnet web site:
The Conservatives do not go far enough in opposing government surveillance and databases, Liberal Democrat shadow ministers have argued at their annual conference.
The party’s home affairs spokesperson Chris Huhne said the Tories were inconsistent. “If the Conservatives are really against the surveillance state, why do they promise to remove the [...]
John Oates writes in The Register:
The Home Office is refusing to release ‘research’ it carried out which was meant to prove just how very keen young people in the UK are to get hold of a delicious ID card.
Stephen Moss writes in The Guardian about interviewing Keir Starmer, the Director of Public Prosecutions:
This is the first interview Starmer has given in his new role, but he appears to relish it: he is friendly, fluent, willing to engage. It is 45 minutes before he resorts to a diplomatic answer, when I ask him whether [...]
David Cameron writes in The Observer that the Liberal Democrats and Conservatives have much in common:
Take another key progressive issue – civil liberties. This Labour government has shown complete contempt for the rights of the individual. And once again it’s been the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats who have been leading the fight against this. [...]
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