Words fail me The e-borders scheme
Although I do need to point out that discussion of this ranting about this at the family dinner table got everyone over the age of 14 so irate that poor T thought he was being told off for something and ran up to his room in tears 
I don’t particularly have an opinion about Mr. Goodman. I do, however have an opinion about this government’s ability to uphold the rule of law. In case you missed it, this comment made by Harriet Harman over the weekend sums up the whole problem.
The prime minister has said that it is not acceptable and therefore it will not be accepted,” she added.
“And it might be enforceable in a court of law, this contract, but it is not enforceable in the court of public opinion and that is where the government steps in.
And if you can’t see why that statement is unbelievable, outrageous, repressive, populist, frightening, undemocratic, probably a taste of things to come and quite frankly idiotic then you never had much regard for basic freedoms and liberties in the first place.
I’m horrified.
ETA 3rd March
Looks like it backfired on Harman anyhow and Brown backed away from her comments quicker than a ferret on speed (not that I care what he thinks, but at least that’s normal politics in action rather than some weird Alice-in-Wonderland 21st Century populist dystopia)
I’ve removed Spiked from my links.
Reason? I came across Lobbywatch on a casual internet browse which goes on at length about how it is hugely bound up in what appears to be a Revolutionary Communist Party, pro-GM, pro all scientific progress at all costs lobbying network. At least that’s what folk like George Monbiot reckon.
Now, I happen to think that Mr. Monbiot is a bit of an anti-rationalist wanker myself. His Guardian columns have been annoying me for years. And i did know that the Spiked people were all marxists of one sort or another.
But I don’t want to be indentified with any of this daft factionalism (Judean People’s Front? Splitters!)
So Spiked! has had to go.
Proof of the fallibility of systems (not that they’ll see it like that)
Surely no-one will take ID cards and the National Security database seriously after this?
First in what I fear will be a regular series on the increasing threat to our basic liberties