Archive for November, 2010

Nick Clegg: Hugo Young lecture 2010

Posted at Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010 by andrew

The Guardian web site carries the full text of Nick Clegg’s Hugo Young memorial lecture, in which he touches briefly on the Database State: I will be focusing tonight on domestic policy; in the New Year I will be setting out in some detail the new progressive approach to foreign policy. For now, just let [...]

The birthday candles in your veins

Posted at Monday, November 22nd, 2010 by andrew

Ewen Callaway writes in Nature: A drop of blood can provide a rough estimate of a person’s age, helping forensic investigators to draw physical profiles of suspects and victims who leave few other traces behind. Conventional forensic DNA analysis matches samples gathered from crime scenes and compares them with those of people identified in an [...]

Labour ‘went too far in trying to hold terror suspects for 90 days’

Posted at Monday, November 22nd, 2010 by andrew

Andy McSmith writes in the Independent about the Ed Balls’ TV interview with Andrew Marr: He also admitted that the proposal to have every British citizen issued with an ID card, first mooted by David Blunkett when he was Home Secretary, is now dead, because “that decision has been made and I think we need [...]

Power to the People

Posted at Friday, November 19th, 2010 by andrew

Wendy Grossman writes on the newswireless.net web site: We talk often about the fact that ten years of effort – lawsuits, legislation, technology – on the part of the copyright industries has made barely a dent in the amount of material available online as unauthorized copies. We talk less about the similar situation that applies [...]

Patients in mass rejection of Government’s online records programme as just one in 750 invited to take part sign up

Posted at Thursday, November 18th, 2010 by andrew

Ian Quinn writes in Pulse: A service set up to enable millions of patients to email their GPs and access their Summary Care Records online has proved to be unwanted by the vast majority of potential users, according to a major new study. Academics from London found that instead of the 5-10% of the population [...]

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