Tag: Stealing your freedom

Carlotta has posted the text of an email received from someone in the dfes. It’s worth reading, it’s worth writing to dfes to get put on the consultation list, it’s worth starting to consider what you would say and where you would fight. Gill blogged recently about how parents must do better according to the…

Round up the youthful suspects! Govt to target crime at birth | The Register Another version of the story that I linked to a couple of days ago, with quotes from and reference to ARCH.

ID cards doomed, say officials – Sunday Times – Times Online Slow news day today is it? Can’t help feeling this really ought to have been a headline, haven’t seen a sniff of it on bbc news though, or in the guardian for that matter. Only found it when following a link from Butterflies and…

Guardian Unlimited Politics | Special Reports | Reform bill climbdown fails to satisfy critics Critics of a new law giving ministers greater powers have renewed their attack despite a major climbdown, warning that the government got its proposals “badly wrong”. It’s still rumbling on. I finally heard from my mp – I mailed her to…

PM’s interview with Downing Street website Because I am quite sure, based on the experience I have had in government, you cannot solve some of these law and order problems unless you are prepared, quite profoundly, to change and rebalance the system of criminal justice so that you have more summary justice, more summary powers,…

let along blog, or do much in the way of commenting. Long days at work, driving OK apart from the occasional suicidal maniac (what else do you call a fool who pulls off at a sliproad only once the hatching is there? Twice that’s happened this week, both times on motorways that have four lanes…

Guardian Unlimited | Guardian daily comment | Blair’s inner circle and its ferocious grab for power The perverse fact is that we are being asked to place great trust in a government that makes a point of distrusting everyone outside its inner circle. If we don’t share their assumption that they alone know what is…