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ID card pledge
I will refuse to register for an ID card and will donate £10 to a legal defence fund but only if 10,000 other people will also make this same pledge. – Phil Booth, NO2ID National Coordinator at...
View ArticleID cards bill passes second Commons reading
The second reading of the ID cards bill was passed by 314 votes to 283, giving the government a majority of 31. In the end just 20 Labour MPs joined forces with the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats...
View ArticleID card rebels offer compromise
Daily Mail reports that Labour rebels have offered an olive branch to Home Secretary Charles Clarke over his controversial plans for identity cards, inviting him to meet them to talk through their...
View ArticleNo re-think on ID cards
Rose Prince of Mirror.co.uk writes that Tony Blair yesterday hinted he would force ID cards on the public even if they were opposed by the House of Lords. A day after the controversial scheme narrowly...
View ArticleLSE report on ID cards
The likely cost of rolling out the UK government’s current high-tech identity cards scheme will be £10.6 billion on the ‘low cost’ estimate of researchers at the London School of Economics and...
View ArticleUK ID Card Battle Heats Up
Wired writes that Britain’s House of Commons this week moved forward with plans to create a new national ID card, but a sharp reversal in support for the controversial measure signals a rocky road...
View ArticleFriends of Dottie
I promise only mild amusement, but sometimes mild amusement is what one needs. And there’s a subtle mordancy underneath. The latest splendid animation from Will Flash for Cash Productions in aid of the...
View ArticleLiteralmindedness and the redefinition of thought
Compare this: By 2050 earlier, probably — all real knowledge of Oldspeak will have disappeared. The whole literature of the past will have been destroyed. Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Byron — they’ll...
View ArticleMicrosoft exec: ID cards pose security risk
CNET News.com reports what we have knowns for some time… Microsoft has warned that the U.K.’s national identity card plans pose a security risk that could increase the likelihood of confidential data...
View ArticleA new kind of freedom
As the report stage of the Identity Cards Bill approaches in the Lords, a reminder of one highlight from the first day of the committee stage Hansard, 15 Nov 2005, Col.1012: Lord Gould of Brookwood:...
View ArticleBlack humour from John Lettice
Commenting in The Register on the Government’s defeats in the Lords on the Identity Cards Bill, John is looking ahead: This potentially sets up a battle where disclosure of costs is seen as a...
View ArticleFisking ‘the anonymous email’
There has been a chain email doing the rounds. It seems to have caught the public imagination to the extent of being used as a source by at least three well-known national columnists to my knowledge....
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