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Should there be a national identity card system in the UK ?
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NHS records project is thrown into confusion
Sarah Arnott writes in The Independent about the Fujitsu’s withdrawl from the NPfIT:
Fujitsu became the second major supplier to withdraw from the £12bn National Programme
Gordon Brown must make sweeping changes
Kevin Maguire writes in the Daily Mirror: So Brown should chuck out unpopular policies, many are of dubious value. That means binning the more expensive tax discs ...
Lecturers defy government over ID cards
Anthea Lipsett writes in The Guardian: Lecturers voted overwhelmingly to oppose and defy the government’s plans to introduce identity cards at the University and College annual ...
Gordon Brown must clean up the mess
David Aaronovitch writes in The Times: And to what purpose does Mr Brown, who wanted it all so much, hang on? Last autumn, even as the ...
If I were Brown, I’d tell the whole lot of them to get lost
Simon Jenkins writes in The Guardian: The prime minister has extraordinary executive power and, on present showing, nothing to lose. Unless he needs specific legislation, he ...
People loathe Labour’s elitists, not toffs
Nick Cohen analyses Labour’s electoral woes in The Observer: Having tried to play the racist card in London, Labour tried to play the race card in ...
A strategy gone wrong
David Howarth MP analyses the ID scheme’s appeal for New Labour: The third principle of New Labour, again in Giddens’ words, has been “Do not cede ...
ID card planners ‘talk tough but act weak’
Sarah Arnott writes in The Independent: All five suppliers bidding for the biometric ID cards programme have gone through to the next stage, prompting accusations of ...
Campaigners taste victory in ‘backdoor ID cards’ battle
Mark Howarth writes in The Sunday Herald: Civil libertioes campaigners have won a review of Scotland’s controversial microchipped entitlement card scheme. Ministers are to scrutinise the project ...
Government to reveal shortlist of ID card providers
Murad Ahmed writes in The Times: The Government will shortlist several leading technology companies today to supply the controversial £2 billion biometric identity card scheme despite ...