How to Make a Cat Yawn
I’ve been trying to get a picture like this for a long time. There’s something comical about the way cats split their heads wide open […]
Month: November 2004
Muriel Gray on ID Cards
This article by Muriel Gray is succinct and insightful. In it she makes a simple argument against ID cards that outlines why ordinary people will […]
Blair Presses Ahead With ID Cards
Today at 15:30, Big Blunkett will unveil the ID Cards Bill – not that there’s much unveiling to be done, as it’s pretty much in […]
Internet Diallers
The BBC’s Breakfast Programme had a piece on internet fraud this morning. In particular was the vexed question of rogue diallers. Those little Active X […]
Blunkett’s Career in the Balance?
According to today’s headlines Blunkett’s personal life may spill into his professional one. While I have always taken the line that the two should always […]
Isaac Newton and the Catflap
I was watching an interesting programme on the history channel this morning over breakfast – Local Heroes. According to Adam Hart-Davis, Isaac Newton became distracted […]
Travel Horror Stories
I’ve done a little travelling in my time. Confined to continental Europe, mostly it has been with my wife and a motorcycle. Although occasionally the […]
Boris and ID Cards
Boris Johnson gives his latest thoughts on ID cards over at the Telegraph. As he points out: "Worse than the cost and the bother, however, […]
Automatic Blunkett
Try the Blunkett-O-Matic. I’d laugh if it didn’t make me want to weep. Pressing the red button may, as the author warns: …generate actual policies […]
Blunkett Rushing Through ID Card Bill
Over at the UK ID Cards Blog Trevor Mendham points out that Big Blunkett is pushing through the ID cards bill with "unseemly haste". He […]