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Labour Parliamentary Candidate Daniel Zeichner To Consider His Position on ID Cards
After the formal part of a hustings event held on the 10th of February I, along with Tim Green, Martin Lucas-Smith and others had the opportunity to ask Labour Parliamentary Candidate Daniel Zeichner about his position on ID Cards. In a previous article on my website I stated my opinion that a vote for Mr […]
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Minister Phil Woolas Fails to Show Up for ID Card Expansion Event in Cambridge
Gathering outside Cambridge’s Post Office where minister Phil Woolas was supposed to launch an expansion of the ID Card and National Identity Register. At 8am this morning I joined about thirty others outside the main post office in Cambridge waiting to greet Labour Minister Phil Woolas who was scheduled to be arriving for an event […]
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Suggestions to Save Public Money – Cut Obsolete Newspaper Adverts
Cambridge City Council’s £2,000 for a short stretch of double yellow lines on St. Margaret’s Square makes a small contribution to the over £20,000,000 annual national cost of publishing highways notices in newspapers. Using the Freedom of Information website WhatDoTheyKnow.com I asked my local Highways Authority (Cambridgeshire County Council) and the Highways Agency how much […]
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Opposing the Database State – Clause 152 of the Coroners and Justice Bill
On Saturday the 28th of February NO2ID organised a “Convention on Modern Liberty” held in various locations “across the UK”. A satellite meeting , which I attended, was held in the Cambridge Union. This article focuses on just one of many important items which were discussed during the day. Clause 152 of the Coroners and […]
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Central Database of UK Internet Traffic
According to ex-editor of the Sunday Times, Andrew Neil, the Government occasionally uses the Sunday Papers to test the populace’s reactions to its more outlandish policy ideas. In today’s Sunday Times there is an article entitled: There’s no hiding place as spy HQ plans to see all. I suspect this is such an article so […]
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Opposition to a database of where children are outside school hours
Dear County Councillor Moss Eccardt, (Copied to the School) I have just read on the Cambridge Evening News website that: “Alison Evans, of Great and Little Shelford Primary School, has come under fire for her plan to build the database which would detail where children are outside school hours in a bid to stop them […]
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DVLA Trial of Smart Card Provisional Driving Licences
A consultation on a DVLA Trial of Smart Card Provisional Driving Licences was run with with a closing date of 11/01/2008. I responded to the consultation, answering all their questions with the below: Question 1: Do you understand and agree with the trial approach? No. ” Drivers will still control access to the data on […]