Monthly Archives: May 2007

Guardian: “Straw signals rethink on ID cards”

2007-05-11 – 15:04:38

Well, well, well. Maybe things will get better after all: Jack Straw, widely expected to replace John Reid as the home secretary, today clearly signalled that the future of the national identity card scheme would be in the melting pot when Gordon Brown becomes prime minister next month. Mr Straw - who is Mr Brown’s […]

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New Dawn Fades

2007-05-11 – 13:24:48

So there we have it: Tony will soon be gone. I had forgotten some of the good things: the minimum wage; civil partnerships (though why not for het couples?); the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly; the London Mayor and Assembly; Northern Ireland, of course. Even the hunting and smoking bans. But Iraq; the dodgy dossier; […]

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Ten Years in an Open-necked Shirt

2007-05-01 – 07:56:49

He could have been great, you know. We could be sitting here now, raising a glass to the end of the reign of Britain’s greatest Prime Minister of the (loosely-bounded) century, if not ever. It wouldn’t have been hard. Look at the two before him: after they had finished their slash-and-burn attack on the economy […]

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