Tag: big brother
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We’re all just balls in the machine…
My attention was drawn to this notice today. Apparently there’s one of these now in the new shopping centre in Bristol – Cabot Circus. I guess it’s the next move in the game, as we drift ever oblivious toward the Big Brother / Minority Report world we laughed about in 1984. Ok, we didn’t laugh;…
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I’m not a Tory but
<applause!> <APPLAUSE!> Ok, I’m far too cynical to accept everything I hear without question, but the words, the words… reflect absolutely how I feel about the way ‘our’ government has gone over the last decade or two – back even into the last Tory stint. Perhaps, on planet bish somewhere in fantasy land, there are honourable MP’s and…
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National ID Card and Register Consultation
Earlier today I attended a brief from the Home Office Minister Meg Hillier who was consulting on the forthcoming UK National ID Card and Register. I’m in no way a fan of surveillance and feel slightly queasy about ID Card, and I was invited as representative of The Druid Network, as a Faith Communities Consultee.