Although not being reported in the mainstream media yet, it seems that the ill conceived ID Card and Database plans for the UK have been scrapped.
Not a moment too soon, although many people may not have had to get them anyway, such as Irish people living in the UK.

This can be “FND” on the wall of a local church in Leytonstone. At the bottom of the poster there is the cryptic suggestion that it is possible to chat with God, via text messaging and at no connection charge. Well, who knew.

It all started when an unemployed British sysadmin decided he wanted to get to the bottom of the whole UFO phenomenon, and find out whether strange craft sighted over UK skies for many years were in reality experimental military aircraft belonging to the United States military.
Gary McKinnon would get smoked up, fire up a perl [...]

For sale in walthamstow! I wouldn’t be seen dead in it.

The Campaign to Make Votes Count in the uk trundles on, and while some in the labour government still insist there is no need to change a system where around 30% of the vote means over 50% representation in parliament some within the party are starting to realise that the system that punished them in [...]

Ken Loach’s new film, The Wind that Shakes the Barley, has had the British press up in arms, with one paper declaring that it is “designed to drag the reputation of our nation through the mud.”
In fact the critics had their condemnation in print before any of them had seen it! George Monbiot has a [...]