Andrew Grice writes in the Inependent:
Ed Miliband has much more than winning the Labour leadership in his sights. He is convinced he can complete the first realignment in British politics since the Social Democratic Party of David Owen and Roy Jenkins left Labour in 1981.
“There is a progressive majority in this country; we did not [...]

David Jarvis and Matthew Davis write in the Sunday Express:
Town hall snoops have been caught red-handed using the DVLA’s database to spy on people.
The Big Brother tactics emerged after councils were given the green light to use DVLA car registration records, strictly to track down owners of abandoned vehicles.
Instead, and in breach of the rules, [...]

Brian Wheeler writes on the BBC web site:
The pressure to make efficiency savings by any means possible – and the fear of expensive legal action from IT suppliers if contracts are cancelled means that some big IT schemes conceived by Labour are going ahead as planned.
For example, a huge scheme to transfer all medical records [...]

Mark Ballard writes in Computer Weekly:
The number of public sector workers caught snooping on personal records in the government’s largest citizen database continues to grow, with the total now 225 – and the true figure could be higher still.
Yet another employee has been sacked for accessing records on the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) [...]

According to the BBC:
The government has admitted missing its target of scrapping ID cards within 100 days of coming to office.
In May, in one of the coalition’s first acts, Home Secretary Theresa May said the bill to abolish the cards would become law by August.
But ministers ran out of time to get it on to [...]