The wheels on the bus .…well they’re sticking a bit.

3 December 2008 //
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They said it couldn’t be done! The engines just couldn’t take any more, captain! But they (who is this “They?”, Ed) were wrong. I’ve taken on board some of the comments on layout, and hope­fully(!) made National ID Cards Even Easier.

Now before you rush off to read it, I want to thank the 11 people who voted in my “What shall I do next” poll. Six of you have told me that you want me to trans­late the snap­pily titled Delivering a Sustainable Transport System: Consultation on Planning for 2014 and Beyond into Real English. This is defin­itely going to be trickier than ID Cards, mostly because I have much stronger feel­ings about public trans­port. Mostly, the number 35 bus… gah!

While you’re waiting with bated breath (you’d better be!), here’s the cunningly titled National ID Cards Explained:

National ID Cards explained

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National Identity Cards

26 November 2008 //
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The UK is intro­du­cing offi­cial ID cards over the next couple of years.

There has been a massive amount of polit­ical debate, and a lot of vocal oppos­i­tion, mostly through the No2ID campaign.

Personally, I’m on the fence. Privacy is already at a massive premium, with CCTV cameras, satel­lite networks, the UK census, voter regis­tra­tion, lost disks and laptops, stop and search. Do we really want to give the govern­ment more than we already do?

However I’m a firm advocate of tech­no­logy as a help, not a hindrance, and the idea of a data­base which holds my inform­a­tion cent­rally is actu­ally quite appealing, and poten­tially (though this is never guar­an­teed!) it could be helpful in cutting through the swathes of inform­a­tion I have to provide all the time to prove who I am and what I’m entitled to.

As an offi­cial (and some­what painful!) fence sitter, I take a look at the latest consulta­tion on ID cards from the govern­ment, and I am some­what baffled (as I frequently am) as to what it all actu­ally means, in a prac­tical sense. This thing is 97 pages long. Ninety-seven!

So, to kick this whole thing off, and do what I prom­ised to do, here’s a Totally Unofficial 10 page trans­la­tion!

National ID Cards — 10 page summary

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