Tag: panopticon

… mdja Isn’t the Friend Finder just what was there before they called it the Friend Finder? Jonathan Yes, I think so. They’re just giving it another airing….

Angela Epstein is unbelievably pleased to have been able to “bag poll [sic] position” in getting a national identity card. While she is apparently aware that the cards are “hotly disputed”, she says “everyone is entitled to their view”. Epstein (the Jewish surname not without some grim irony here) may think that ID cards are to be debated at the level of the colour of soft furnishings or who should win The X Factor, but amid all the blinkered adm…