Month: January 2008
Motorcycle Tax Evasion
The BBC carries another story about motorcycle tax evasion today: The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency risks becoming “a complete laughing stock” after it emerged […]
Transport Card Forged
Via Freeborn John, I came across this article by Bruce Scheier regarding the Dutch transit system’s new RFID enabled travel cards: The Dutch RFID public transit […]
Leaking Like a Battered Bucket
It seems that even the Guardianistas are waking up to the reality that is our control freakish, totalitarian New Labour government. Jackie Ashley starts by […]
The Silent Majority
The Remittance Man draws my attention to the last testament of George MacDonald Frazer. He focuses on the final paragraphs in the piece and it […]
MPs in Favour of Presumed Consent
Given the recent statement by the Organ Donation Taskforce last week, I had hoped that presumed consent had, indeed, been consigned to the back burner. […]
The Olympics Junket
Sam Leith takes a delightfully cynical stab at the London Olympics: My colleague Andrew Gimson this week rightly admonished the Culture Secretary, James Purnell, for […]
First They Came For…
Via Mark Wadsworth: “First they came for the extremists, and I did not complain because I was not an extremist …” Although as his commenters […]
Well Done Wales
Via the NO2ID blog, this little snippet from the Welsh Assembly: A Welsh Liberal Democrat debate calling for ID Cards not to be used toaccess […]
Presumed Consent “On the Back Burner”
After all the fuss the other day about presumed consent for organ donation, it seems as though alternatives are to be explored before going down […]