This technology was once the reserve of science fiction; now they have it Leicestershire.
While the reshuffle dominated talk in the village, the Data Retention and Investigatory Bill was hurtling through the Commons.
Smart guns, smart cars, smart houses – the future has arrived, but who’s in control?
Human intelligence is more likely to turn up evidence of terror plots than mass trawls.
The Treasury Select Committee is right to resist the Government’s plan to empower HMRC to raid bank accounts without the permission of a court.
Westminster village types seemed genuinely surprised that an anti-war message can come from a rightwing politician
The police and the Crown Prosecution Service should throw the book at anyone within the jurisdiction who has made death threats, either express or implied, against Maajid.
I have nothing in common with the militant unionists and left-wing MPs involved in the campaign on this matter. But on the wider principles concerned, I’m wholly in agreement with them.
We need to do more to ensure those who seek to do us harm are prosecuted, in open court and judged by a jury of their peers.
The sweeping breadth of reform being championed by Conservative MPs is now so commonplace that it is hardly remarked upon in the newspapers.
We need to improve protection against voter fraud, without resurrecting Labour’s database state.
The definition of what is annoying and a nuisance, is so wide that it risks outlawing many hitherto reasonable and lawful acts.
The Home Office wants the Data Retention and Investigatory Bill to be as transparent as possible. Sadly, though, that may not be saying much.