Google Street View UK

Google Street View and the growth of CCTV

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The Downfall of Gordon Brown – the prequel

A film showing the Labour Party’s solution to the financial crisis in the UK.

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Michael Martin and the Damian Green affair – or ‘not me guv’.

So now we know. He knew but didn’t check.
The speaker did know in advance of the raid on Damian Green’s office, and in what must be the most pathetic and weakest of excuses possible he says he wasn’t told that the police did not have a search warrant. (I’ll leave aside the very debateable [...]

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Damian Green – DNA sample

Amongst the furore of the Damian Green arrest, and all the other implications that flow from that, is the largely unremarked element of the collection of DNA ‘evidence’.
I, like many others these last few years, have been extremely concerned about the routine collection, and retainment of DNA evidence. It seems to be the case that [...]

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The Damian Green arrest – an open letter to my MP

Dear Helen,
Re the Damian Green affair.
I have on previous occasions reminded you that after the primary duty of representing your constituents, your secondary duty is to hold the government to account. I have so far not detected this in your dealings with Ministers. I trust that even you can see the seriousness of this affair [...]

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Damian Green – why the arrest?

So Damian Green the Conservative Immigration spokesman has been arrested in connection with a series of leaks about immigration statistics from the Home Office. Well if that’s to be the case I sincerely hope that as much attention will be paid to those in government, who in recent days were clearly leaking details of Alistair [...]

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curved cucumbers & bent bananas

So after years of lying to us, and complaining that stories of bent bananas and curved cucumbers  were wicked myths, put about by eurosceptics, the European Commission is today set to remove many of these ‘mythical’ directives from the statute book. Sadly however not all. So whilst the EU commissars are now permitting bent cucumbers [...]

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Airport security – the terrorists have already won.

I’ve just returned from an extended visit to India, (hence the absence of recent blog postings here).    
Based on my experiences with security at airports in both Europe and India, it is clear to me that the terrorists have already won, such is the misery encountered by travellers in the warehouses of misery that pass for [...]

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Words of wisdom.

Apropos the ContractPoint database, (the database of every child in the UK), and the proposed ID card scheme: 
“If you are looking for a needle in a haystack, I am not sure it is wise to make the haystack even bigger” Richard Thomas, Information Commissioner 

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Police national computer – failure of number plate recognition technology.

I’ve just watched a programme on BBC television, which neatly points out all that is wrong with the surveillance society, and the reliance placed on technology by the authorities, to the detriment of the innocent citizen.
The Liverpool police were having a crack down on uninsured cars one day, and deployed 40 + police vehicles with [...]

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