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Safeguarding Identity Strategy
Safeguarding identity strategy ... aims to deliver a common framework for the use and handling of individuals' identity information.
Identity & Passport Service,
Home Office, June 2009
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It’s ours: Why we, not government should own our data
Control over our personal data is at the heart of the Labour Government’s plans for improving delivery of public services. Information on how we live our lives is to be centralised so that the State can decide when and where to provide public services. It is a “we know best” approach, a panopticon, with government insight into every aspect of our lives.
Liam Maxwell,
Centre for Policy Studies, June 2009
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Contemporary Social Evils
While some evils - like poverty - endure as undisputed causes of social harm, more recent sources of social misery attract controversy. Not least among them are an alleged rise in selfish consumerism driven by economic liberalization, and a perceived decline in personal responsibility and family commitment.
Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Policy Press,
11 June 2009
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Who voted BNP and why?
The BNP won its first seats in the European parliament not because its supporters are all racist, but because many voters feel insecure and let down by the main parties.
Channel 4 News, 8 June 2009
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Philosophy for Children
Philosophy prior to high school seems relatively uncommon around the world. This may suggest that serious philosophical thinking is not for pre-adolescents, for two principal reasons. However, both of these can be challenged.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 8 June 2009
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Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists
In her commitment to reason and the facts of the world, in her brilliant readings of the Western canon, and above all in her fierce commitment to politics as a moral endeavour, Neiman makes it possible to believe that the Enlightenment is not yet exhausted and that we are free to join it if we wish.
Susan Neiman, The Bodley Head Ltd,
4 June 2009
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Censorship is the wrong way to combat BNP
Claire Fox argues that an illiberal obsession with silencing Nick Griffin and the British National Party in the run up to elections has won the party undeserved publicity. Andy Newman (editor, Socialist Unity) responds
here and Fox retorts
here.
Claire Fox, Andy Newman,
Index on Censorship, June 2009
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Reinventing politics
To suggest reform of a parliamentary system steeped in the anachronism of traditional class struggle is a retreat from reality
Jeremy Seabrook,
Guardian Comment is Free, 31 May 2009
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Conscientious Objection in Medicine: A Moral Dilemma
Where are the boundaries between professional obligations and personal morality? Can personal morality override professional duty when it comes to patient care?
Ishmeal Bradley,
Clinical Correlations, 28 May 2009
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Privacy and the public
Privacy intrusions don’t just happen when information is inappropriately gathered, stored or shared. Intervention in people’s private lives and private thoughts now occurs so routinely around that it has become a normal fact of life.
Jo Herlihy,
Culture Wars, 21 May 2009
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