Of course ID cards will have reasonable security around them, and the Home Office spokesman is right when he said The biometric means that it will be much more difficult to use somebody else’s identity But that’s about an individual card. However safe the cards are, it’ll still be possible to burn a good chunk [...]

I couldn’t sleep this morning, so got up and when I saw the sky wanted to take a picture. But you’ve got to be quicker than I am. In the three minutes it took me to get my camera and set up the tripod it had gone. I got this pic instead, which still shows [...]

In today’s blah blah of internet blah and news blah blah it’s as well to keep your feet on the ground. Or so I found yesterday. There was a big fire in East London. In the office BBC News 24 and Sky News relayed helicopter pictures live, and I sat at my desk watching them [...]

A blog consisting entirely of stories from shop assistants: notalwaysright.com. I’m amazed at how many people feel they are able to enter into a conversation with a stranger for which they are clearly not equipped… Tags: stories, blog, shopping

The Guardian and Observer archives go online today, and it’s free to access, just for the moment. I had a look at Tuesday 6 March 1973 — to pick a date at random. I’m afraid I bypassed the news and, as usual, went straight for the TV pages. BBC2 starts at midday with Play School, [...]