So – it’s almost here. David Blunkett is apparently pressing to get a Bill creating national identity cards in the Queen’s Speech. And – after all the babble about “entitlement cards” that wouldn’t be called ID cards so as to be more cuddly, voluntary schemes and the like – he wants them to be compulsory,…

Read More YOUR PAPERS PLEASE! and how the Home Office’s mind works

Which oil-rich Middle Eastern country supported Osama bin Laden? Which oil-rich Middle Eastern country is run by an alliance of Wahhabi fundamentalists and corrupt princelings? Which oil-rich Middle Eastern country recently locked up a number of British citizens for no reason at all, subjected them to beatings and sleep deprivation, forced them to make video…

Read More So who’s up for the invasion of Saudi Arabia then?

The Guardian reports on recent successes by Britain’s favourite mob of semiliterate fascists, the British National Party. Apparently, one BNP councillor had to be “taught what it meant to abstain” at a council meeting last week. Amusing, but there is no place for blatant smuggery when a wannabe politician like the BNP’s John West can…

Read More The BNP and the glam that goes with it

Preparation for massive terrorist attack has been a major theme of life since September, 2001, and one that governments have been tackling in various ways. The US, of course, has already built a gigantic new bureaucracy for this task (the department of homeland security, and its military twin the US Northern Command). In the UK,…

Read More Civil defence should be citizens’ defence