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You know a government is trying to look tough, pandering to the sadist vote, when one of the country’s own police forces rejects government plans to make wider use of Taser guns.
Kiwi Tom Chapman writes for Public Address about the authoritarian bureaucracy that has been taking root under New Labour’s watch in Britain.
The UK police, who have my DNA, have already sold DNA data to private companies and, according to Jenny Willott MP, this includes “sinister explorations into ethnic profiling.”
I’ve pencilled in the advent of a National ID card and/or biometric passports as points at which I might leave Britain. I just don’t want to be a part of a society that has a centralised infrastructure whereby the government or some numbskull at the Post Office/Police can have access to all this information and use it against people they don’t like.
I don’t how many times I’ve heard the cliché “if you don’t have something to hide you’ve got nothing to worry about” so in some ways a lot of people here deserve such a government.
Thought this was rather nice. From Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares this evening.
Absolutely brilliant idea introduced by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall on his UK TV program River Cottage last night: Landshare, linking people who want to grow their own food to space where they can grow it.
Check it out at Landshare.net and register your interest.
I have a flat with a small garden—which helps me stay sane living in the middle of a busy city like London—but I’d love to be able to grow more than we currently can and while I’ve signed up for an allotment in Camden I’m over 700th on the list so have an estimated wait of more than 10 years!
I see unused land all over London that could be used for growing food. Now I’ve got my beady eyes on the large disused grassed area at the housing estate across the road!
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