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Archive for September, 2010

Every parent will end up on vetting database unless it is scrapped, warns think tank

Posted at Monday, September 27th, 2010 by andrew

Tom Whitehead writes in the Daily Telegraph: A national anti-paedophile database is “poisoning” relations between generations and even increasing the risk to children, a report has warned. The controversial vetting system, designed to check adults who work with children, has become so out of control that it could eventually cover the majority of the population [...]

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Eyes front! The coalition partners focus on the future

Posted at Sunday, September 26th, 2010 by andrew

Matt Chorley writes in the Independent on Sunday: Anyone arriving in Liverpool expecting blood on the carpet was going to be disappointed. The Liberal Democrats are far more subtle than that. Only the most alarmist, or those who understand the third party least well, thought there would be open revolt and angry calls to abandon [...]

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Council tax revaluation ‘would hit poorest the hardest’

Posted at Friday, September 24th, 2010 by andrew

Matthew Weaver and Haroon Siddique write in The Guardian about the Coalition Government’s decision not to revalue council tax bands during the current parliament: [Eric] Pickles also announced an independent review of council tax inspections, which he said would “rein in intrusive snooping” by restricting the data gathered and stored about people’s homes. Inspectors from [...]

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Boiling Frogs – The Factory

Posted at Thursday, September 23rd, 2010 by andrew

Kate Maltby, writing in The Spectator, reviews the play “Boiling Frogs” by Steven Bloomer, currently showing at The Factory. Boiling Frogs is an angry, important play. Set entirely in the mirrored cell of a police station, it hints at an Orwellian Britain in which civil liberties have been all but wiped away, by a State [...]

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Smug would be unkind, but one cannot call Clegg modest

Posted at Tuesday, September 21st, 2010 by andrew

Quentin Letts writes in the Daily Mail: There was something in his manner yesterday that suggested he thinks the Government is leaping to his orders like some sort of zoo sealion. He practically claimed all the credit for getting rid of ID cards, even though that was a firm Tory promise. The full text of [...]

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