September 23, 2003

In the Intelligence and Security Committee’s otherwise weak and scared report tho other day, there was a minor gem of truth. In the past on this blog, I made the point that the Hutton Inquiry had demonstrated that Jack Straw’s excuse to the Foreign Affairs Committee was dishonest. Straw, you might dimly recall, made the…

It strikes me, with reference to the ID issue, that this proposal keeps coming back for reasons of bureaucratic ecology. The Home Office’s business is control, and any new function or technology or policy that adds to the size and expense of the control business will be loved there – organisations seek first of all…