Oh my word. My jaw has dropped. Just take a listen (with RealPlayer) to a clip of Bush Was Right. (Via Tim, who’s all over G2 today.)
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…from Lord Mackenzie, on ID cards:
He told BBC News: “Let’s look at the Soham murders. If Ian Huntley had had an identity card, would he have got the job at Soham school which allowed him to commit the murders? I think not.”
Erm, I think so, your lordship. Huntley didn’t disguise his identity to get the job so where would an ID card confirming that help? (Ignoring the too-often-forgotten fact that he didn’t work at the school attended by his victims.) The problems highlighted by the Bichard Inquiry related failures in the way Humberside and Cambridgeshire police forces recorded intelligence information, and how that weakened criminal records checking, an entirely separate issue from ID cards. A shameful attempt to use an emotive crime to distort a controversial issue.
Rachel from north London says…
John Tulloch (author of Doctor Who: The Unfolding Text
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Rather than cheering the defeat of the PM’s plain to lock people up for three months without charge, I thought I’d share a couple of text messages I received on the subject.
Ha, gordon n' jack needn't of dashed back
Straw and Brown’s flights back and McCartney’s heroic visit from hospital merely saved the Government from losing by a slightly larger margin. And I bet it was the taxpayer who funded those extra international flights.
How comes doing what coppers want is 'listening to those who know best' but listening to teachers or nurses is 'submitting to producer interests'?
Good question.
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