May 5, 2004

The Guardian reported yesterday that the Government wants to introduce an identity card for everyone involved in education. This would carry a Unique Learner Number and a wide variety of information: “such information as a person’s qualifications, course aims, employment situation and possibly income details.” Income details? It gets worse: “The most sophisticated system would…

The Yorkshire Ranter is the only Google result for “the law of goats”. I’m not sure what the nameless netizen from New Zealand was after when they punched that one in, but it nailed my remark that some business types had “all the respect for the law of goats”. I hope they weren’t too disappointed.