Karen Challinor

UK

staring at clouds

but of course the NIR/ID card scheme won't have any of these problems, it will be perfect, it will be run by superpeople who never make mistakes and can't be corrupted on hardware that never breaks down and doesn't wear out, with oooodles of spare capacity to handle the peak usage times, everyone will work in the best interests of the public and absolutely no one but criminals will be arrested for any crime ever again

and if we swallow that then Mr Brown was right to regard us as too thick to understand the complex issues of government

and still no sign of the extra powers to do spot inspections of government departments that the ICO was promised nearly six months ago in that "heat of the moment", "off the cuff and not to be taken seriously" remark by Mr Brown