Quote Of The Day

Dear Mr Blair, 1984 is a satirical novel of a nightmare future. It is not the instruction manual on how to do it.

Posted by a Mr Michael Ney in the comments after Anthony bLiar's article arguing for ID cards in today's Telegraph. The fact that barely any of the comments were in favour of the new internal passport was a least heartening. The fact that Toni dismisses the civil liberties argument as not carrying much weight is profoundly scary.