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* For reasons which are now obscure, some posts are submitted in the name of "BrotherBig" or "Brother Big" rather than "David Moss".
24 hours more wisdom
42 days is bad in both practice and principle
42 days is still too long
A cracking row over ID card lobbying for us all to savour
A dog's life
A Dreadful Record
A good month to bury bad news
A historic shift?
A house of cards
A just war against the murderers in our midst (July 15, 2007 1:53 AM)
A law to label real fur - that should bring the voters back
A maître d’s guide to winning a ‘yes’ vote on the EU
A mass movement is needed to tackle the state's snoopers (X3)
A new generation waits to pick up JFK's torch (April 16, 2007 1:49 AM)
A picture of something chillingly Orwellian
A pledge to keep
A question of identity (X8)
A rising note of panic surrounds Number 10
A rollercoaster ride with Matthew Parris (4 Oct 2007 12:17:43)
A significant message from Nick Clegg
A strategy gone wrong
A tax on the absent-minded (December 24, 2006 2:21 AM)
A third ‘will refuse ID checks’
A tragedy born of military despotism and anarchy
A whiff of the think-tank as Miliband gets high on concept at Foreign Office
A wild move but the principles are correct (X6)
Absolutists on both sides have got it wrong
Against all odds we can still win, on a platform for change
All Gordon can do is fight on - and hope his luck turns (X2)
All this lofty talk counts for nothing while only 8,000 voters count (X5)
An Archbishop for the Internet Age (X3)
An empty chair on 5 Live
An underground scandal
An unprincipled threat to our liberty
Any fat goose fretting over tax can boo this lot off course
Archbishop, with sharia it's all or nothing
Are we a free country any more?
Ask Blair: it's personality, not policy, that wins elections (September 5, 2007 9:26 AM)
Ask the under-50s
At last the great divide is coming into focus
Avoid humiliation – learn from the decisions of history
‘Back-door’ ID cards under fire (X2)
Bah, humbug! (X6)
Bandits at 2 o’clock high? (X10)
Be a pro-MMR campaigner (X2)
Be bold, Gordon: show us the red thread running through your policies*
Benighted ID scheme to hit foreign nationals soon... (X8)
Beware the lesson of the Tory wolf in liberal clothing (X6)
Big bang is dead: Christmas has been cancelled (x2)
Big Brother is...napping (24 Sep 2007 11:12:21)
Big business should look beyond the online society
Biometrics are not a panacea for data loss (X9)
Biometrics: still much too unreliable for everyday use (Correspondence)
Blair is wildly exaggerating the threat posed by terrorism (November 22, 2006 2:57 PM)
Blair risks ending up as one more crusader in the Levantine ditch (X2)
Blair 'wrong' over liberties stance (27.09.07, 12:56am)
Blame compliance for the donations scandal
Blunkett is given job at identity card firm
Bold aspirations, but the economy will be key (X2)
Bordering on crazy?
Breakthrough discerned?
Britain: “a dark outrider among liberal democracies”
Britain is slithering down the road towards a police state (X8)
Britain’s future: Labour candidates’ views (June 14th, 2007 at 11:57 am)
Britons tolerate security cameras' prying eyes
Brown brings in the barbed wire
Brown but not out (X6)
Brown has nothing to hide
Brown improves his anti-terror act, but ID cards could ruin it
Brown's aspirations aren't those of Thatcher (June 18, 2007 12:49 AM)
Brown's austerity extends only to the English middle classes (May 16, 2007 2:12 AM)
c.f. Car wrecks and Hutus: a guide to good conduct
Brown’s in a deep hole - and here’s how he should get out of it
CACI sued for torture by former Abu Graib inmates
Cameron must not waste his sudden popularity
Can Labour recover from the cash for honours crisis? (February 5, 2007 1:30 AM)
Canvassing for David Davis? Well, don't take my car
Case closed: Why Hillary won
Charles Clarke warns of ‘Labour civil war’ (X4)
Change the leader? Yes. Go to the country early? No
Charles Moore attacks the Israel university boycotters
Child data debacle seals Whitehall's demise (X2)
China's All-Seeing Eye (X4)
Class war hots up (01:07 PM on 23 May 2007)
Class warriors who betrayed the underclass (X3)
Clegg's first 50 days (X3)
Coming next... an even bigger database
Comment is free awards 2007
Concern over ID card systems
conservativehome: Friday 16th February 2007 (16 February 2007 at 14:23)
conservativehome: Monday 3rd March 2008
conservativehome: Thursday 25th October 2007 (25 October 2007 at 12:57 and 23:18)
conservativehome: Thursday 29th November 2007 (X6)
Corporate complicity with the Great Firewall
Crackdown on 'illegal' employers
Crosby changes the nature of the ID debate
Crying betrayal
Database state will not work for us
Dave new world (X2)
David Cameron: What makes me Conservative (September 9, 2007 2:57 PM)
David Cameron's enthusiasm could still trump Gordon Brown's Clubcard politics (October 2, 2007 12:45 AM and 12:56 AM)
David Cameron's Tories nudge aside Labour's macho world (X3)
David Davis decides to call a by-election:
Bad bargain (X4)
The rôle of civil liberties (X2)
The UK National Identity Scheme (X14)
We live in a new world, it is claimed ... (X6)
David Davis and the great media U-turn (X56)
David Davis isn't acting on principle, but wounded pride (X3)
David Davis to resign from shadow cabinet and as MP (X2)
David Davis's decision is political lunacy
David Miliband can't (11 April 2007 at 13:34)
David Miliband has to go
David Miliband is ready for battle, but someone else must pull the trigger
David Miliband makes the case for democracy
David Miliband will galvanise Labour so the Tories should get ready (X2)
Davis won't divide us
Davos 08: globalisation in capitals
Davos 08: Those irritating human rights questions (X3)
Dawkins on the power of the Jews (X3)
Dazzled by false colours (X2)
Dead or alive? Ten icons who are still with us
Did Gordon Brown know about the risk to child benefit data?
Disaster on the cards (X2)
Discredited
Disruptive behaviour (X4)
Do Cameron's critics really want grammar schools? (22 May 2007 14:11:48)
Does Huckabee's view on evolution matter? Hell, yes!
Dogma is for losers (X6)
Don’t like ID cards? Hand over your passport
Empty rhetoric from a Labour apparatchik (X2)
End of New Labour spin? I can hardly wait (May 13, 2007 10:44 AM)
Entitlement card 'a threat to civil liberty' (X6)
Europe is holding us back. We must rethink
Examine the pink doughnut closely. Then sit and weep
Exploding the "myth of the rational voter" (15 Jul 2007 20:57:02 and 16 Jul 2007 17:05:57)
Face it, there is no escape from 'them' (X3)
Facial recognition is same as tossing coin
Facing the fallout (X5)
Faith schools may be Blair's most damaging legacy (X13)
FBI Prepares Vast Database Of Biometrics (X5)
Fight Club: Richard Littlejohn vs. Polly Toynbee
Fisking Janet Daley (21 May 2007 14:23:09)
Flood risk is here to stay
Folding on Fisa (X2)
For the DUP, this was a triumph (X2)
Foreign bodies
Forget MPs, what about our privacy?
Forgotten values (X6)
France's fringe take the Pyongyang option
Freedom v tyranny
French presidential election: too close to call, too exciting for words
From courageous to stubborn (X2)
Fusion centres realise full potential of “astral soup” (X2)
Getting to know you
Give it up, Gordon (X16)
Give peace a chance. Forget the war on drugs
Give them up for new year (X8)
Giving identity cards a bad name
Glasgow East is the by-election to watch
Goodbye, good times. Now Labour has to show just whose side it is on (X2)
Gord: We’re Rock solid
Gordon Brown can lay the ground for Labour's next generation
Gordon Brown doesn't get the oil crisis
Gordon Brown pays the price for dishonesty (X9)
Gordon Brown to play part of Union protector
Gordon "Huckleberry" Brown decides not to call an election:
Avoid humiliation – learn from the decisions of history
Brown will pay for his unwise gamble (X3)
Brown's bona fides* (X3)
Brown's poll pretence
conservativehome: Sunday 7th October 2007 (X5)
conservativehome: Monday 8th October 2007 (X2)
conservativehome: Wednesday 10th October 2007
Darling's on his knees but dancing to Tory tune (X2)
Do the Tories have the bottle to win?
Election news update 1.50pm (X6)
Four reasons Tories shouldn't fear Nick Clegg
Gordon Brown will let Alistair Darling swing (X4)
It’s back to the drawing board for the Tories
Kerry or Kennedy?
Nick Clegg - policy wonk
No election, but battle for Britain has begun (X2)
O lucky Mac
PM decides against snap election as poll shows Tory lead
Small sops to freedom can't hide what Labour has stolen
Something borrowed, something blue*
Taunt them. Humiliate them. Kick them
The Big Feartie from Fife (X6)
The real problem is deeper than just Gordon (X9)
The start of a new Labour leadership battle? (X3)
Things fall apart*
Thoughts from the Brown press conference
Tories and the Turning Point (X2)
What Ming must be musing on
Why is Gordon Brown so reluctant to be a liberal?* (X4)
Gordon Brown: Stalin to Has-been
Gordon Brown: the terrible vacuum
Gordon Brown: We must defend the Union
Gordon Brown's government fighting with itself
Gordon Brown's latest Americanism: the Shrum speech (30 Sep 2007 21:00:00 and 2 Oct 2007 00:02:20)
Gordon Brown's masterly inactivity won't wash
Gordon calling (X2)
Gordon needs culture lessons from Tony
Gove skewers Gordon
Gray's elegy, Darling's disaster
Hanging on the telephone
Happy birthday to EU, happy . . .? (March 24, 2007 1:45 AM)
Has he been watching CSI again?
Here is your passport to penury (March 12, 2007 9:37 AM, 10:17 AM and 11:24 AM)
House of ID Cards collapses
How best to respond to the Israel boycott
How much has the 10p tax row damaged Gordon Brown?
How safe is your data? - on-line or off?
How the Establishment bugs Gordon Brown
How to respond to mistakes (X5)
How to win the game on tax (X3)
Hunting Bhutto's killer
I didn't sign up for this
I get the drift
I seldom say this these days, but Gordon Brown is right
ID cards ‘will allow crime fingerprint checks’
ID cards and a “tougher new strategy on immigration”
ID cards could be derailed by pensioners as finger prints of over-75s are hard to scan
ID cards for immigrants to strengthen UK security
ID Cards: Labour's Bad IDea
ID Cards: the Pea-Moss says (X3)
ID: bid risk and the vulnerability of IPS
ID: Genealogy of a Biometrics Company
ID scaremongering
ID scheme is a poorly conceived shambles
Ideal realised
Identity and Transformational Government podcast
If a Martian taxman landed now, he'd never guess Labour was in power (X5)
If I were Brown, I'd tell the whole lot of them to get lost (X2)
If we want jail to work, we must take the fetters off the jailer (February 18, 2007 11:04 AM)
If you or your chatmate are looking for a nilogism or mislexis, don’t wait till an earar (X3)
I'm in tune with the 'I can' generation (March 29, 2007 11:47 AM and 2:33 PM)
I'm one of 'them' (X6)
In offering Labour an illusion of hope, David Davis may have done Cameron a service (X3)
In our right minds (X2)
In the age of leaky data, there is no such thing as a secure online computer (X2)
Inaction on pay profligacy only embeds child poverty (X21)
Individual rights are being taken away by Labour
Information overlord
Intercept project: what a terrible idea (X3)
Internal passports reminiscent of the cold war (X2)
Is Britain on the slippery slope to dictatorship?
Is Gordon Brown crazy enough to call it? (5 Oct 2007 12:25:20)
Is this the worst diagram ever?
It could happen again
It is not enough to be liked, MPs need beliefs (July 16, 2007 9:44 AM)
It is time for privacy debates to grow up
It suddenly comes back to me (4 Sep 2007 14:28:29)
It’s back to the drawing board for the Tories
It's Labour stalwart versus Tory fop - dress rehearsal for the really big one
It’s one small step from Brown’s paranoid state into a police one
It's risky, but there may yet be method in the maverick (X2)
I've got a thing about Alistair Darling
Jacqui Smith ventures out without even a PlodBerry for protection
Jordan, snobbery and the arms trade
Just a few key-strokes away from a new Orwellian age
Kelly grilling over lost data
Labour is blinded by its lack of an oven-ready new leader
Labour has nothing to say and no territory of its own (7 + 2 comments deleted by CiF moderator but available here)
Labour must decide. Sack or back him, deadline autumn
Labour should give Gordon Brown a break (X2)
Labour will force everyone to give fingerprints at ID card interview centres
Labour's decade is liberty's best since the vote was won (X10)
Labour's doomed four point plan for recovery (X2)
Labour's election hopes rely on things they don't control (X2)
Labour's time is up
Landslide I
Last of six McKie case experts sacked
Left foot forward
Let's get over our silly fears of public ownership
Let's not spy for the FBI (X2)
Liam Byrne on ID cards and people trafficking
Lib Dems face challenge to retain MPs
Longer detention is about saving the public (X2)
Mad to be happy? (X4)
Magna Carta 2007 - an updated version to protect us from an overweening State
Making the non-doms non grata is nonsense (X2)
Midsummer madness (June 21, 2007 2:02 AM)
Miliband's World
‘Millions to rebel’ over ID cards (X2)
Mind how you walk. It could be a crime (March 26, 2007 10:12 AM and 3:40 PM)
Mobile identity
MoD staff who misled the public should be exposed
MPs have their hands tied
MPs must act now to set limits on snooping (X5)
Mr Brown's getting a grip on Number 10, but not on voters
Mr Stalin goes to Ireland
Nelson's column (24 May 2007 18:24:31)
Next government needs quality, not equality
New fear of major ID con
Newsnight: Monday, January 14, 2008
Nick Clegg is about to get squeezed out (X3)
No harm in being wrong, sometimes
No internment (July 16, 2007 1:25 AM)
No sign of NHS-ID System linkage discussions (X4)
Nonsensical excuses for Labour failure (X6)
Not so suicidal after all
Now Brown can rediscover his natural political fire (X2)
Now for ID cards - and the biometric blues (X11)
No2ID (X1,300)
No2ID to Advocate No2Labour Tactical Voting (X2)
Oh! What a Lovely War on Terror - it's the number the arms dealers love (September 14, 2007 9:49 AM, 10:36 AM)
On Mike
Online analysis (03:51 PM on 28 Sep 2007)
Open letter to the McCain team on media bias
Our freedoms are being severely curtailed
Our state collects more data than the Stasi ever did. We need to fight back (X9)
Out for what they can get (X2)
Out-thought by the Tories (X3)
Pandora's box of bugs
Parking fines via CCTV to force drivers to obey (X2)
Peace and goodwill to all
Pensions in £2.9bn rescue
Personality obsession may end Gordon Brown
Phones talk (X3)
Pity poor washed-up me, suffocated by washbags
Plan to ‘hijack’ bus passes as ID cards* (11:58pm Tue 23 Oct 07, 9:31am and 10:13am on Thu 25 Oct 07)
PM's 'low morale' Bank rift
Power to the people (X3)
Practical tests for ID card scheme
Precious liberty (X6)
Project Stork
Putin's peril
REAL ID Revolt Spreads to 33 States
Reid's double-talk will hit security (March 30, 2007 1:01 AM)
Remembering Tiananmen (X4)
Removing the state from Dr Rowan Williams
Risk to abuse victims of national ID registration (see also)
Roman circus
Routine fingerprinting at Heathrow provokes outrage (X5)
Rule of law, not lawyers, is what matters most
Rules won't help in love or money
Safe in our cages (X12), What do you want to talk about? (X2)
Save English football! Do absolutely nothing!
Say what? Ahmadinejad's new post
Schooling for tolerance (X6)
Security and ContactPoint: perception is all
Security is on the cards (Comment no. 573969, 574352)
Semi-detached Digby
Send Blair to be Our Man in Baghdad (May 3, 2007 11:17 AM)
Sharia courts? Get off your knees, Archbishop
Should the Tories return to traditional values? (September 4, 2007 9:24 AM)
Simon Heffer on UKIP: how can he not get it? (24 Jan 2007 14:30:57)
Simon Heffer's People of the World in 2008
Simplicity itself (May 9, 2007 1:40 AM)
c.f. Cameron raises his standard in the battle of ideas
Situation Vacant
Sir Menzies Campbell wasn’ t too old. He was too old-fashioned
Six reasons why I’m an uber-moderniser
Sky spies
So what’s new?
Some U-turns are good, Gordon Brown (October 15, 2007 1:51 AM)
Son of supergrass
Spain divided as bomb trial begins
Spies come in from the cold (X2)
Stakes are far too high for Westminster sleaze
Storing up trouble
Storing up trouble
Surveillance is really getting under my skin (November 20, 2006 2:00 PM, November 21, 2006 4:10 PM)
Surveillance state (X4)
Symbolic and illogical (X2)
T5 is a national disgrace (see also)
Taking evidence seriously (X2)
Tanks for the memory
Taunt them. Humiliate them. Kick them
Taxing Credibility
Teenage sex crisis 'due to drink and drugs' (June 15, 2007 2:52 AM)
Temper temper
Terrible price of our porous borders (July 9, 2007 1:23 AM)
Terror detention: Is our liberty or the PM's authority more important? (X4)
Terrorist detectors for every UK airport (X4)
Terrorised by Fanatic Tony
Tesco’s to “Issue ID Cards”?
Thank Newsnight it's Friday
The 10p crisis's biggest loser (X3)
The 12-step programme
The advice Lord Browne should have received
The Arctic Monkeys strategy (23 Jun 2007 10:24:37, 4 Jul 2007 18:41:01 )
The Blair memo and why it matters
The British primaries?
The challenge facing David Cameron has changed (X2)
The claws are out in the Labour Party (X2)
The corporate kleptomaniacs (X2)
The dam's burst. Now voters just want to wallop Labour
The death throes of 20th-century ideology (X4)
The faulty memory of Gordon Brown (X3)
The Forsyth saga
The freedoms missing from a 'vision' of liberty
The future is even blacker for Gordon Brown's party than it seems
The great Britney and Barack Obama video (X2)
The Government is spinning in circles
The internet is down (X2)
The kamikaze approach to the "war on terror"
The kindest cut (X3)
The Lib Dems face a clear choice: get radical or fudge into eternal decline (X3)
The long shot
The long sleepwalk from freedom
The mistakes of war
The mobile future
The national ID register will leak like a battered bucket (X4)
The plodding pace of change
The politics of identity (X5)
The politics of nudging (X13)
The question of Intention
The real reasons why Blair is still clinging on (February 6, 2007 1:27 PM)
The Right to Roam
The rise of Miliband brings at last the prospect of an atheist prime minister (X14)
The threat from terrorism does not justify slicing away our freedoms (X3)
The tide has turned
The unions' Labour-saving devices
The way of the future (Jun 21 2007 09:56 AM)
The Worst Book Ever? (X2)
Theory and reality
There for the taking
There is no Northern Rock rescue for subprime savers
There's a new divide in politics, and Cameron is on the better side of it (X4)
They all seemed harmless in Davos
They can't even cook their own books
This government has been the most rightwing since the second world war
This is a nudge in the wrong direction
This was the week that Labour's leaders left social democracy for dead (October 12, 2007 12:38 PM)
This would make the Gestapo proud
This year's other Whitehall scandals
Those good ol' smokin' days (X6)
Time for a hysterical overreaction
Timing is everything
TJX says 45.7 million card numbers stolen
To run or not to run
To throw the enemy the chancellor's head would be utterly in vain (X8)
Today in Times Comment (22 Jan 2007 17:36:57)
Toffs and Foreigners
Tony Blair has changed - he's abandoned New Labour (2 Feb 2007 13:58:24, 14 Apr 2007 10:21:18 )
Tony Blair has changed - he's abandoned New Labour (2 Feb 2007 13:58:24, 14 Apr 2007 10:21:18 )
Tony Blair: success or failure?
Too much information
Top 10 things Brown should expect (X4)
Tories can win with tax breaks (May 9, 2007 2:09 AM)
c.f. Cameron raises his standard in the battle of ideas
Tories fuel further debate on ID cards
Tories must not be ashamed of their history (September 4, 2007 11:19 AM)
Tories promise 10,000 strong border police as alternative to ID cards (February 28, 2007 at 14:34)
Tories reach out but face some hard questions (X5)
Tories: there is nothing wrong with being Right (October 1, 2007 8:27 AM)
Tories unveil border police plans
Tories who would rather lose than change (January 14, 2007 1:21 AM)
Turkish Thoughts: Memories of the Wapping strike
Tying the knot? For you, we promise £5,000 (X4)
U-turns and the truth (X4)
UK ID Card Fairy Land
UK ID card procurement likely to start in June [2007]
United States 'is top source of online crime'
Unrecognised iris
Unlocking Fingerprints (Aug 28, 2006 5:08:44 AM, Aug 31, 2006 5:04:58 PM)
Up from the ashes (X4)
Virtual policing
Vordick durch Sprungtek
Voters support an EU referendum (X7)
Wanted: an election challenger
Was Churchill wrong in 1940?
Was Gordon in on Smith's secret? (X3)
We are the watchers. We help you (Comments deleted when Times website upgraded but available here)
We don't need ID cards (Comment no. 285516, 287301)
We face a terrible threat – so storing my dull, private details is no big deal (Comments deleted when Times website upgraded but available here)
We must not tolerate this putsch against our freedoms
We need ID cards to secure our borders and ease modern life (November 6, 2006 3:09 PM)
We rage at Hain and Conway but miss the real profligacy (X3)
We trusted this country. Look how it treats us (X7)
Wednesday's comment from the papers in... (16 May 2007 12:48:24)
c.f. Car wrecks and Hutus: a guide to good conduct
Welcome to a new era: the politics of ‘but’ (X3)
We'll be able to sign up for ID cards at Tesco (X11)
We'll get to love ID cards (X8)
We're not fundamentalists - personal information deserves respect (X2)
What did the PM say to convince Admiral West?
What do you want in Wednesday's programme? (##14 and 23)
What happened to the Crosby Review? (X4)
What it takes to be sure of a long stay in No10
What pushed voters away from Gordon Brown?
What the Inland Revenue forgot to lecture on
What's next? Lost ID cards? (X4)
What's riding on a Sarkozy victory? (20 Mar 2007 13:09:32 and 21 Mar 2007 12:17:20)
What’s the legal basis for criticising govenment documents in the contempory UK?
Who are the most influential American liberals?
Who do you think you are?
Who else has mislaid their data? (X2)
Who is Jack kidding? (X5)
Who really governs?
Who will have the courage to be Labour's Geoffrey Howe?
Who will stay the course in the ID card bidding race?
Who will win the election? Facebook fills us in (4 Oct 2007 13:44:32)
Who would trust Labour on ID card security?
Why abhor Tories when they do it themselves? (September 5, 2007 11:21 AM)
Why business is wasting time playing politics (X6)
Why David Davis is wrong
Why Gordon Brown should sign the EU Treaty
Why Hillary won when the polls said she would lose
Why history favours the bold outsider (April 10, 2007 12:40 AM)
Why Huggy Cameron has performed a vanishing act
Why I am standing against David Davis (X2)
Why John Reid resigned
Why Miliband doesn't have the qualities to be leader (X2)
Why we don't have high speed Sarkozys and TGVs
Why we need a referendum
Will ID cards prevent identity fraud?
Will Nick Clegg tip the balance in British politics?
Will Scots be willing to carry identity cards? (X4)
Will the last ISP to leave the EU not switch off the Net?
William’s oxen may not be invited to Russell Square (X5)
Williams is dangerous. He must be resisted
Wishbone thinking
Witness anonymity: the price of justice
Wonky women (X2)
Yes, it matters who leads the Lib Dems
You couldn't make it up (X6)
You listened once, Dave. Now here's some more advice
You take the high road, he’s taken the no through road
Zero case for lying (25 May 2007 15:40:45)
* For reasons which are now obscure, some posts are submitted in the name of "BrotherBig" or "Brother Big" rather than "David Moss".
 
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