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Health, Safety and Work.

November 30, 2007 0

I don’t often discuss my work here, but today I’ll make an exception; partly because of the absurdity that I observed. This story is not […]

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Biometrics are not a Panacea

November 25, 2007 4

Tim points us to a fascinating article by Ben Goldacre on faking fingerprints. This is not particularly new – the idea has been around for […]

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More Facebook Stuff

November 24, 2007 1

According to today’s Groan, Facebook is continuing to play fast and loose with peoples’ information – without their explicit consent: Thousands of Facebook users are […]

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Cameron on Liberty(ish)

November 24, 2007 1

Cameron is to speak to the Czech Republic: The state is being allowed to “creep further and further into the lives of British people” as […]

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Big Blunkett – Back from Obscurity

November 23, 2007 3

In the wake of the government’s utter incompetence – well, the latest manifestation of it – this week, that nasty, ignorant authoritarian arsewipe, Big Blunkett […]

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More on the EU Plans for Data Rape

November 21, 2007 5

Aunty has more details about the type of questions the European Commission wants included on member states’ censuses: In addition to data on nationality, size […]

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Quickies…

November 21, 2007 3

Incapability Brown apologises… Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said he “profoundly regrets” the loss of 25 million child benefit records. He apologised in the Commons […]

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Suspect on the Run

November 20, 2007 1

I Suppose, given Incapability Brown’s paranoid determination to create a fortress Britain, stories like this will be drip fed into our consciousness, bolstering the “need” […]

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Libertarianism

November 18, 2007 20

Freeborn John on libertarianism: The idea that someone who advocates personal freedoms and a small State could place at the head of it a hereditary […]