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Identity cards chief defends government u-turn
The head of Britain’s ID cards project and national identity database has defended the government’s revised ID card plans in the face of allegations of a u-turn after the project was scaled back. By
Read More »Drug traces found in U.S. water supply
Trace amounts of pharmaceutical drugs are lurking in Louisville’s drinking water, including one used to treat people with bipolar disorder and alcohol withdrawal, and another prescribed to combat seizures. Swimming with them in the
Read More »AUDIO: Dialect Radio – Diana Inquest
Features this week News featuring the latest on the Princess Diana inquest, including excerpts of interviews with Mohammad Al Fayed and Princess Diana. Columbia Solidarity – Report on the protests staged by Bristol’s Columbia
Read More »Can we believe Gordon Brown?
‘Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?” Johnny Rotten famously sneered to the audience at the San Francisco Winterland in 1978, just before the Sex Pistols split up. Well, 30 years on, we have
Read More »DNA register ‘labels children as criminals’
Campaigners condemn laws that have put 1.5 million juvenilies on a database Jamie Doward Nearly 1.5 million 10 to 18-year-olds will have been entered on the national DNA database by this time next year,
Read More »Putting the ID in idiotic
Iain Macwhirter ISN’T IT reassuring that the finest minds of their generation are serving in Gordon’s government. Take home secretary Jacqui Smith and her brilliant solution to the problem of compulsory identity cards: making
Read More »Government tries to abuse the Bill of Rights
Government and the Speaker of the House of Commons collude to try to abuse the 17th Century Bill of Rights to suppress the FOIA disclosure of OGC Gateway Reviews of the ID Cards Programme
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