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Archive for August, 2010

After the navel gazing, Labour should focus on being an effective opposition

Posted at Sunday, August 22nd, 2010 by andrew

Mark Stuart, writing in the Yorkshire Post, comments on the Labour leadership contest:
But even the most Blairite of leadership candidates need to recognise that New Labour in government became over-centralised and far too obsessed with creating a surveillance state. As the coalition rapidly devolves power downwards and scraps ID cards, Labour needs to urgently re-examine [...]

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Government scraps plans for citizen data sharing system

Posted at Friday, August 20th, 2010 by andrew

Mark Ballard writes in Computer Weekly:
The government has scrapped plans for a central data-sharing system through which the personal records of everyone in the country were to be shared with all government departments.
The plans to turn the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Customer Information System (CIS) into a cross-government citizen database, called CISx, have [...]

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Labour will have to grow up eventually

Posted at Thursday, August 19th, 2010 by andrew

John Kampfner writes in the Independent about the first 100 days of the Coalition government:
Clegg is taking the long view. The Government, and his party’s role in it, will be best judged in five years’ time, assuming the Coalition holds out that long. Yet, as his aides admit, it is essential for the Lib Dems [...]

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E-borders poll now open

Posted at Wednesday, August 18th, 2010 by andrew

Sarah Norbury writes in Practical Boat Owner magazine:
With two months to go until Chancellor George Osborne announces his sweeping spending review in parliament, now is your chance to let the Government know your views on e-borders.
Voting has opened on the Treasury’s Spending Challenge website. Here you can rate the ideas sent in by the public [...]

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Government stays mum on e-Borders’ future

Posted at Tuesday, August 17th, 2010 by andrew

According to ZDnet:
The Home Office has refused to be drawn on whether it is planning to scale down the e-Borders programme.
Departmental minister Baroness Neville-Jones has sent a letter to Lord Brooke, deposited in the House of Commons library, saying it is not yet possible to answer his parliamentary question on whether the programme’s workforce will [...]

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