Category: Politics

Check out this animation from the States! (Link from Infinite Ideas Machine)

The report of the Home Office Select Committee is published today (PDF), and they report that plans are “badly thought out”. I need to spend a bit of time reading the report this weekend and then see what needs to be done next.

I note that the Democratic Convention is being covered live on BBC Parliament through the night, with the unspun CSPAN coverage. I fell asleep before Clinton came on however!

Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism looks very interesting. Read about how it was made here.

With his autobiography due out tomorrow, the PR machine is in full flow. So yesterday there was a big article in The Observer about Clinton’s post-Presidential life. Then today, The Guardian had an interview with the man himself, while tomorrow Panorama (who had a great programme last night on the superdollar) sees David Dimbleby get…

This sounds very encouraging. Looking forward to seeing the verbatims from the latest session.

Mistaken Identity at the The Old Theatre, London School of Economics – 19 May 2004 So here finally, are my notes from Mistaken Identity, which was described as a public meeting on the proposed national identity card. Note that I can’t do shorthand, and if I’ve misquoted anyone, or misinterpreted the points that they were…

Michael Moore’s won at Cannes!

A BBC News report from the meeting the other day. When I get a chance, I’ll link to other reports, and still plan on putting my own comprehensive notes up. In the meantime, here’s someone else’s notes from the meeting. Might I also recommend reading Peter Williamson of The Law Society’s address (PDF). He was…

The meeting today was exceptional, and I’ll try to type up my notes forthwith.

I’m going along to this on Wednesday afternoon – taking time off work to get there in fact. The government has introduced draft legislation for a national identity card. The card system will cost at least �3 billion and is likely to become an essential part of life for everyone residing in the UK. If…

The reviews of Michael Moore’s new film are beginning to trickle out, and I’m looking forward to the forthcoming British release (rubbish site that hasn’t been updated for a couple of months – great if you’re a film distributor!). In the meantime, the Americans are still saying that they’re going to hand power back to…

The clock has got to be ticking on Donald Rumsfeld hasn’t it?