From BBC news: Jack says no to poll. Chicken! Also from the BBC, an idiot’s guide to the EU constitution: Division of Responsibilities What the constitution says: The EU already has rights to legislate over external trade and customs policy, the internal market, the monetary policy of countries in the eurozone, agriculture and fisheries and […]

Singapore threatens to sue internet dissenter . More links in the Guardian’s newsblog. Some links with background: From The Spill Over Ink: Blog Obituary: caustic.soda by AcidFlask From Singabloodypore: Singapore Blogger ‘Apologised Unreservedly’ To A*Star From From a Singapore Angle: Straits Times steps into the breech / TODAY tries again

Spent a pleasant afternoon sunning ourselves and reading the Sunday papers in the Botanics. Reading about the Cabinet reshuffle and ever-present Blair/Brown divide was depressing. It’s almost as if there was no election, and it’s business as usual. Scrapping behind the scenes. Blair as bullish as ever, and misinterpreting the message voters were sending (deliberately, […]

Some old news I’ve only just noticed. Police in Malaysia have proposed fingerprinting babies at birth. And the UK is worried about mere ID cards… I remember my prints being taken when I was 11. Even then I worried that someone could track my every trivial movement, dusting library books for prints and naming/shaming me […]