Government IT cock ups (over budget, under specified, not working) are a perennial at the moment. The latest concerns ContactPoint, a database for the handling of information about all children in the UK. Its main aim is to let professionals that deal with children (teachers, social workers, GPs and so on) to know who else [...]
Entries from September 2008
September 3, 2008
White terrorists
A bit of an absurd sentence in a Guardian news item on the ‘Gordon Brown’ assassination plot (see here). Unfortunately the writer’s (or the sub-editor’s, maybe) lack of history or context, and an obsession with Islamist terrorism, leads to this:
He is not the first white person arrested for an alleged terrorism offence.
Obviously they should add [...]
September 2, 2008
Help for homeowners: the Daily Mail spin
You’ve got to love the Daily Mail spin on today’s announcement for helping home buyers (not homeowners as they say).
Only families on earnings below £60,000 will qualify, however, making it unsuitable for many Londoners needing higher incomes to meet sky-high prices. (my emphasis)
Well yes, it’s true that you need a big income to buy a [...]
