Following Gordon Brown's announcement today that he wished to introduce a Bill of Rights for the British people, the excellent Bishop Hill blog has beat him to it.   more »

Gordon Brown is lying to the British public - with the blessing of the EU. The new European Union treaty will mean "transfers of sovereignty" from Britain and Gordon Brown is right to hide the fact from the public, an EU leader admitted yesterday   more »

The bill, The Government Spending (Website) Bill 2006-07, is designed to force Treasury and Departments to place in a single database all expenditure with explanation 30 days after the money has been spent. The decision to progress the bill has been deferred to the next sitting on 19 October with the government’s view having changed little since January when I last wrote about this Bill.   more »

In an Early Day Motion raised on 25th June and published yesterday, raised by Katy Clark and has obtained 35 signatures, MP's call on the new Prime Minister to launch a full review of the National Identity Card scheme (which I hope includes the NIR), including an option to cancel the entire project.   more »