The Home Office has not included the Welsh language on ID cards because the words are considered too long to fit on the cards.

This is despite the Home Office saying that it “has adopted the principle that in the conduct of public business and the administration of justice in Wales, it will treat the English and Welsh languages on a basis of equality.”

Wales Online reports:

Despite Welsh being used on driving licences and passports, the language was not used on the design of ID cards, which are already being issued to foreign nationals.

“One of the other challenges is the length of the Welsh language -you have difficulty just fitting in the words on a very small ID card. But we are sensitive to these issues.”

Of course, the sensitive (and sensible) thing to do would be to scrap the intrusive ID cards scheme altogether.

Hat tip to Home Office Watch

Coco February 9, 2009 at 00:31

Errrrr ……………… ”Who do you think you are kidding Mr. Hitler?”

janes February 8, 2009 at 13:20

Coco ….The new Government Data for The New World Order is to compile a
database for international travel records of us all! Names addresses, dates of
birth, phone numbers and methods of payment…

Now you tell me! Mere months after my first holiday out of the UK for nine
years. I KNEW there was a reason I stayed at home. And it was to an Arab
country too – I’m doomed. We’re all doomed, doomed …
Now I’ve started
humming a tune – guess what!

Coco February 8, 2009 at 02:30

The French have brought us some work which means jobs! Yeahhhhhhh!

Thank you to the French!

700 tonnes of ‘contaminated material’ is due to arrive here in the UK! What
the fuck is ‘contaminated material’ when it’s at home?

Apparently there are a great big load of ghost ships sat on Teesside! And
they are all recycled.

Mmmmmm! So European waste is brought to the toilet of Europe to be cleaned
up!

The UK is just a giggle away from being cast away by Europe – but they need
us to deal with their waste.

And we are happy to trot along because it brings jobs to pacify the masses.
Bravo!

What a contract to have won! We Brits can do things that other people can’t
do! Or should I really say – that we do stuff that other people won’t do ………….
because we cannot do anything else.

Coco February 8, 2009 at 02:18

janes …………… The new Government Data for The New World Order is to compile a
database for international travel records of us all! Names addresses, dates of
birth, phone numbers and methods of payment!!!

They will be stored for ten years! Ten years!

But let’s face it! If you can afford exceptionally good lawyers like the
Clan ……………… You can refuse for the records to be released to the Police.

Coz let’s agree ……………… Mistaken identities are bound to be made! And DATA
is bound to go missing and get stolen and ……………

WHOSE crap idea is this? Who thought this was good idea?

Coco February 8, 2009 at 02:11

Ay up! That business in Liechtenstein that I mentioned the other night has
just arrived! This is something that Gordie can do without. Grey Men time I
reckon. People will be paid off, bought off and bumped off!

The UK Treasury is currently setting about trying to defend what they have
– up until now – been telling us is absolutely indefensible.

Uh-oh! They have been employing dodgy people who do dodgy things ……………..
again!

Transparency wasn’t the key-word with Milly the Miliband this week
regarding Guantanamo and US threats. so …………….. I wonder how transparent this
lot will pan out to be? Can transparent sometimes appear as opaque when it’s
to do with Government? I believe that this is something we may never really
get to the bottom of somehow ……………..

Coco February 8, 2009 at 02:01

JACQUI SMITH’S MORALITY IS BEING QUESTIONED!!!

JACQUI SMITH! Well I never! Her of the ill-fitting garments and complete
lack of a hair-brush! Bugger me! No fucking wonder she doesn’t want freedom of
any information anywhere ever!

Jacqui Smith! Tut. Tut!

Jacqui has been claiming that her sister’s house is her main residence!

What kind of a relationship does she have with her Sister? Mmmmm!

Her Sister mustn’t consider her family if she charges her rent ……………

If I was to ask my Brother for rent ……………. or he were to ask me for rent
…………….. I think our relationship would be over!

Ooooooooh! What a high and mighty Little Miss Toffee-nosed Twat! Awwwwww!
This is really immoral. All those poor and sometimes homeless tax-payers
struggling away whilst she’s claiming over 100 grand to ‘live’. Fucking Hell!
I could ‘live’ on that!

Can I be Home Secretary instead of a wanker now please?

For those of you who have sadly become unemployed …………… There are some
fucking cracking jobs out there if we only knew where to look!

I am looking straight at the Houses of fucking Parliament I am!

Straight at ‘em! I want some of that!

I want Jacqui of the ill-fitting garments to fuck off right now and let me
have her job! Or Gordie! I could do his job from my bed!

Coco February 8, 2009 at 01:44

THE PARTIALLY STATE-OWNED ROYAL BANK F SCOTLAND IS GOING TO PAY ONE BILLION
POUNDS OUT IN BONUSES!

WHAT A SET OF WANKERS! WAHT A CROCK OF CRAP!

The RBS has been given 20 billion UK pounds to drag them out of the mess
that they themselves have created and to prop them up with tax-payers
money!

Having accepted this bail-out, they want to pay out one billion pounds for
the bank-staff’s hard work!!!

I would like to be paid a top salary all year round and then get a big
annual bonus on top ………… Even when you fuck-up badly! Are there any more of
these wankers jobs going?

This must be one of the best jobs in the World! Getting paid to be a wanker
and then getting a bonus for your fuck-ups! I never thought I would say this
…………. but I want a job in a bank now!

Coco February 8, 2009 at 01:31

By the way ……………….. I will make sure there is a Welsh Assembly in the
Commentariat! But just to save time and space …………… Everything will be in
…………….. Chinese! Just
in case the Welsh try to get the upper-hand! I know who the Prince of Wales
is!!!

And I remember those chilling words that Diana wrote about him interfering
with her car …………….. Mmmmm!

(Note to self) Be careful what you say about the Welsh. Think, Ann
Robinson. Ann Robinson. Ann Robinson ………….

Ch February 8, 2009 at 01:29

…. no problem …… off you go ….. sleep well ….. I’ll turn in too
……
:-*

Coco February 8, 2009 at 01:26

Off to bed now …………. because I have a dreadful feeling of foreboding about
tomorrow ………….. and the next day ………… and the next day ………….. and the day
after that!

Sorry about all the irritating dots in my posts ……………….. But I like doing
it ……………… sometimes.

Coco February 8, 2009 at 01:20

My nails are too long ……….. If you cannot interpret the above ……….. I will
re-write it!

It should read that kids have got too much homework …………..

Coco February 8, 2009 at 01:18

Ch

Coco February 8, 2009 at 01:12

Is it me or is ebay more full of brand new stuff than second-hand these
days? The UK’s car-boot sales and even antique fairs went this way! Yep! I
have bought new stuff at an antiques fair!

Methinks that all shops will cease trading shortly ………… No rent, no rates,
skeleton staff!

Methinks that half the companies that are on an even keel during this
recession will deliberately bale out of the High Street and use the recession
and the Government as an excuse and reason to do so …………….. And the Tories
will use this to their advantage ………………

Methinks we are doomed!

Methinks that the end of the World as we know it is upon us! We are in the
midst of melt-dpwn ………. and I am not well as it is!

Methinks that I need to ask my doctor for a stronger pacifier on Monday! A
much stronger one …………. I shall tell the doctor to blame it on the New World
Order …………. Will he call me paranoid ……….. and write it in his notes on his
data-protected pc ……………… that his cleaner and District nurse can read?

Honestly chaps! We really are doomed.

Therefore I am going to learn Welsh!

Rise everybody! Learn to speak Welsh! I insist! That way no fucker will be
able to track what we say! They won’t understand it and they won’t be able to
spell it!

WELSH IS BRILL! WE LOVE THE WELSH! WELSH IS BRILL! WE LOVE THE WELSH!

Ch February 8, 2009 at 01:02

Aspirin would be a better bet for a perforated stomach and a painful death.
What a stupid woman!

Coco February 8, 2009 at 01:01

And Gloria ………… We don’t take turns. Have you not noticed as I have that
there are periods when it looks like I hog the site? You all have lovely chats
and I read it when you are not here and feel I have to comment! Long after I
know you won’t be reading it and have all buggered off to bed!

Coco February 8, 2009 at 00:59

Chatelaine!!! Now!
What made me think that you would do this as well?

Tomorrow we must talk to Anna about talking this through at some point.

Coco February 8, 2009 at 00:57

Chatelaine …………… I forget that you are not in the UK. It’s Baby P – God
rest his Soul! The SS woman from Haringey SS is having a strop and trying to
get the UK sympathy …………… She is failing miserably for me. Miserably! But to
tell the nation she thought about taking Paracetomol is highly irresponsible.
Teenagers here will go from chemist to chemist ………. sometimes taking all day
and night to accrue ‘enough’ Paracetomol to try and kill themselves with.

Mrs. SS Haringey looks so sensible that millions of people here will
believe that you can easily kill yourself with Paracetomol ………. and it is
notoriously not easy to do so as we know.

Gloria ………. Have you heard her whining voice on the news yet?

Ch February 8, 2009 at 00:53

Coco, I’ve been doing that since 25 years or more. Was doing business with
countries like East Germany and Cuba [and others, of course] and whenever I
heard a click would start saying terrible things, hoping to wake-up a poor
tired & bored person having to listen in

Coco February 8, 2009 at 00:51

Gloria and Chatelaine ………… It’s the woman from Haringey SS. I don’t use the
SS lightly either!

She has told the Guardian everything that I wrote before and I heard her
voice telling us how she wanted to kill herself. What kind of message is that
coming from an allegedly sensible woman???

At least give us a sure way to kill ourselves if you are going to talk to
the Press ………… What a cow and a half she is! Tut. Tut!

Thanks for being here girlies! X

Coco February 8, 2009 at 00:48

janes 02.07.09 at 5:59 pm
We are already tracked in everything we do,
see and say. Everwhere we go we can be traced. And here we all are giving them
even more profiling fodder as we use the
internet.
*************************************************8
I have
heard a click when I mention enigma, Osama Bin Laden, Houston.

I always make a point of using at least three contentious words when
speaking to officials. Even when paying my gas bill over the phone …………. I
will often say to whomever I am speaking that I insist they give my love to
Osama ………. wherever he is ……….

On greeting friends over the phone I will ask them if their tobacco or
cannabis crop is ready for drying out or ask them how their distillery is
doing in the pantry.

I have encouraged many hundreds of people to talk like this over the phone
since I found out about the satellites picking this rubbish up. If my friends
and acquaintances have only done it with maybe three other people each ………………
There could be thousands of us at it by now!

Loose talk costs lives. (Cue the Jaws music) ………. Du du ……. du du du du …….
du du du du du du

Ch February 8, 2009 at 00:43

I was only asking, Coco, because I was not aware of any McCann on May 4

Don’t cry. We’re still here, having a drink at the other side of the
building [also no more than 40 yards, seriously].

BTW what’s the story about paracetamol? Did I miss an important news
today?

Gloria Smudd
February 8, 2009 at 00:42

Aw! Coco! I will be here for you, it just isn’t my turn yet.

Gloria Smudd
February 8, 2009 at 00:38

No joke, Coco. Suicide isn’t an easy thing to achieve. So, no, paracetamol
in any quantity, up the knicker-leg or stashed in a tea-caddy, ain’t the way
to do it and I ain’t sayin’ it is. Never would say that.

Coco February 8, 2009 at 00:37

Have you all abandoned me again? Like a child in PDL? Where are you? ………. I
am crying very loudly! The neighbours can hear me ………. and they may report
this at a later date ……….. if I disappear! And you will all be in trouble for
not attending to me ………. Unless you are doctors ………..or you come under the
Leicester Social Services catchment area ………… I am CRYing!

Coco February 8, 2009 at 00:33

Have you ever seen the mess that a load of Paracetomol can make? And if you
have got an ulcer forget it!!!

The foaming makes a dreadful mess on the Aubusson is all I can say ………… And
the acid takes the colour out of marble flooring ……….. And you are left
without the sheen!

Coco February 8, 2009 at 00:31

Ch

Gloria Smudd
February 8, 2009 at 00:30

Oh, third tip: keep at least 500 paracetamol tablets in yer knicker-leg,
you never know when the urge to end it all may strike.

Gloria Smudd
February 8, 2009 at 00:28

I have one or two invaluable ‘life tips’ I’d like to share. The first is
‘Never eat anything you can’t lift’ and the other is ‘Only ever intall 20 watt
lightbulbs’. Yours, affectionately, Gliroa x

Coco February 8, 2009 at 00:26

Roger! Over and out! Cue the Thunderbirds music! I am off on a mission to
find out what’s really going on with Ed the Balls and the Haringey SS
woman!

I cannot believe that she is telling the World that she searched her home
for Paracetomol tablets so she could do herself in!

How utterly irresponsible is this woman? And how did she get the fucking
job in the first place if she’s so stupid as to want to take her own life just
because she cannot do her job properly?

I am astounded at the way these ‘professionals’ behave these days!
Astounded!

In future ………… if one of these ‘professionals’ drops a bollock …………. I
insist that they are put on a 24 hour suicide-watch immediately!!!

How dare they be able to take their own lives when they have things to
answer for.

If she did this in China she would have to stand trial and then get shot!
That’s the way to treat people who see others as statistics or numbers.

Shoot them! Why did she think she was paid so much money? To fuck about? I
am disgusted at the mind-sets of all these ridiculous people that are
ineffectively running this country!

A call to arms Gloria? janes? Saul? Anybody?

Should I slaughter the lot of them on my own?

Come along! It’s only on the internet!

Ch February 8, 2009 at 00:23

Gloria, even …

Ch February 8, 2009 at 00:22

Gliroa, please don’t mention eyes and bags in one sentence. It’s becoming
quite an item here, though I must admit I haven’t covered all mirrors yet
…

Ch February 8, 2009 at 00:20

I have no idea what I was thinking May 4, Coco. What were your thoughts
then?

Gloria Smudd
February 8, 2009 at 00:19

‘Scuse me, O best beloveds, but contrary to popular belief, I do not have a
hide likely to withstand woundingly barbed comments, nor harpoons.. quite the
opposite. My ‘complexion’ is just that – it’s complex. You may say I have an
empty scrotal sac inexpertly blu-tacked under each eye, I would say the
lighting is bad.

janes February 8, 2009 at 00:15

F.A.B. G’night.

Coco February 8, 2009 at 00:13

That’s right janes! As the Clan would say …………. ”I’m all right Jack ………..
Pull the ladder up!”

janes February 8, 2009 at 00:09

I’m a lumberjack and I’m ok ……

Coco February 8, 2009 at 00:06

Give over janes!!! Gloria and I have the approximate skin thickness of the
Tapastwats! We know what you meant

janes February 8, 2009 at 00:01

Now I feel consumed with guilt, poor Gloria. As soon as I submitted my last
post I regretted not saying ‘fancy that’! I deserve the fate of a moribund
peasant.

Gloria Smudd
February 7, 2009 at 23:57

Coco – Good point and I think it’s Llanfairly likely.

Coco February 7, 2009 at 23:49

You know the one about if a tree falls over in wherever and nobody is there
to hear it ………. so does it make a sound?

Well ………….. If MM had gone missing in
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll- llantysiliogogogoch …………. would
anybody have dared to report it in the Press? Would the LP police have used it
as a legitimate excuse to not have handed their paperwork over in time?

Coco February 7, 2009 at 23:40

Madame! Are you keeping tabs on 3As? I have recently been doing a resumee
and ……………….. My thoughts are even more fervently with the thoughts I had on
May 4th 2007! It’s a funny old World is it not?

Thank God PDL was not called Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll-
llantysiliogogogoch!!!

Now THAT would have given the UK journalists an excuse not to follow the
story!!!

Coco February 7, 2009 at 23:37

Chatelaine! Haha! Same here ……… I was thinking that but then I remembered
that they have all moved to Switzerland or Germany now anyway!

Coco February 7, 2009 at 23:35

Does anybody know a really good mobile nail technician? I am struggling to
find time for a nail appointment and my only free time is currently between
3am and 7am …………… I will fly them to me!

If you don’t find me one ……… I shall continue to make mistakes in my
typing!

Ch February 7, 2009 at 23:34

Aha … think I get it, but hope my Belgian friends are not reading this

Coco February 7, 2009 at 23:33

Bon soir Chatelaine! I am wondering whether to explain that Wals is rather
like Belgium ……………. Very pretty and green but …………………

Coco February 7, 2009 at 23:31

Wher is that bloody Saul? I hope he hasn’t got out of bed to go wandering
about to look for me! I am at the bottom of my garden eating some tapas for
supper.

I must find Saul or he could end up at the bottom of the sea or maybe even
eaten by Aliens!

That would get me in some proper Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll-
llantysiliogogogoch!!! Thank God I am not in Portugal!

Ch February 7, 2009 at 23:28

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll-llantysiliogogogoch
Aaaaahhhh
….
I missed a lot of fun again tonight
Won’t propose to Saul to clean,
as he seems quite particular about his own duties in this respect. Just
cleaning the bar doesn’t do it for me.
With credit to [?Anna ?Gloria? Barry
Took?] I say: cu Mornington Crescent

Coco February 7, 2009 at 23:25

Gloria Smudd 02.07.09 at 11:24 pm
I

Gloria Smudd
February 7, 2009 at 23:24

I’ll quite understand if in the future you send all my posts to the
idiot-filter!

Coco February 7, 2009 at 23:22

I think there is enough evidence in the above comments to ban the Welsh
language forthwith.

When Glenys and Neill come over this week I will show them this. I will say
that in the name of Socialism we must render this paticular language down and
maybe just leave them with place-names like Prestatyn and Rhyl ………….. If
that’s OK with everybody else.

It’s no use the Welsh milking this one. There are villages in India and
Africa that have been going through this for years! And they have survived to
say Reebok, Adidas and Gola …………… And I believe that Coca Cola, Microsoft and
Ford are used quite frequently without endangering themselves or others!

Which cannot be said for the Welsh language ………. For instance, there is
nothing worse than watching a gang of Welshmen spitting and spluttering whilst
cursing and swearing about rugby or male voice choirs …………………..

And no! I am not generalising about the Welsh! I am sure they do other
things than play rugby and sing about keeping the home-fires burning ………….. It
is just that since Tom Jones and Shirley Bassey abandoned the place I have not
seen much going on in Wales.

But thanks to Anthony Hopkins for drumming up support to buy a bit of
Snowdonia ……………..

Wales is doomed …………………….. Just as England is doomed.

If anybody thinks that the English language and grammar will survive ………….
Try reading the younger generation’s text messages! That will show you that it
just cannot survive!

If somebody knows a police-woman or a man who can construct a paragraph or
even a long sentence without mistakes and without sounding like an automaton
…………… I will give you one thousand pounds! And if it’s a Welsh one ……………. I
will double it!

Gloria Smudd
February 7, 2009 at 23:06

Night Anna – blush, blush, blush …

Anna Raccoon
February 7, 2009 at 23:07

Don’t take it to heart Smuddy, it all a load of Balham.

Gloria Smudd
February 7, 2009 at 22:52

If you like, I could explain “You and Yours”, “Money Box”, “Gardeners’
Question Time” and “Just a Minute” for you if you feel I haven’t quite the
right number of bullets in my foot…

Anna Raccoon
February 7, 2009 at 23:03

Ystradgynlais and good night all – see you in the Mornington
crescent.

Gloria Smudd
February 7, 2009 at 22:49

Ah. Smudd blushes. Smudd runs into kitchen and buries her face into a
teatowel. Smudd groans. Smudd is still florid with embarrassment for not
reading janes’s post properly. Smudd skulks back to swivel chair and braves
ridicule.

janes February 7, 2009 at 22:43

Yes Gloria, I know!

Gloria Smudd
February 7, 2009 at 22:42

Neither have I! It’s a game on ‘I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue’ on the radio –
Barry Took, Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor and that sort of person seem to
name random tube stations until one of them says “Mornington Crescent” and
apparently wins the game. Mystifying.

janes February 7, 2009 at 22:39

Sorry, I haven’t a clue, where that is that is.

Gloria Smudd
February 7, 2009 at 22:36

Mornington Crescent.

janes February 7, 2009 at 22:34

Okey dokey luv, don’t get yer knickers in a twist – next stop
Earlsfield.

Gloria Smudd
February 7, 2009 at 22:32

Lumme! How intriguing would our conversation be if overheard on the Clapham
omnibus?

janes February 7, 2009 at 22:30

My two are ethnomethodological research and occipital blue pie. Much
shorter but nearly as entertaining.

Gloria Smudd
February 7, 2009 at 22:27

I started by just saying Llanfair. Then I said Llanfairpwll for a day or
two. Once I’d mastered that, I was allowed to move up to Llanfairpwllgwyn. The
gyllgogerych I was able to add as a single chunk, because it seemed an easy
bit. A couple of more days saying Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerych and I was ready
for the wyrndrobwyll, which I found rather tricky and I may have had to
practise this for a week or two; adding the next llan was also something of a
hurdle for me. However, once I had
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll-llan firmly under my belt, I found I
was ready for the final tysiliogogogoch all in one go!

Sadly, nothing else has really replaced it.

janes February 7, 2009 at 22:17

It sounds great, how did you decide when to add a syllable? Was it by way
of a reward or perhaps a punishment? And what replaced it when you could say
the place name?

Gloria Smudd
February 7, 2009 at 22:15

I can actually say the long Welsh place name, although obviously I can’t
prove it here! I learnt it by adding a syllable at a time from a Welsh guy
with whom I shared a studio space at Art College. So there. How useful is
that?

janes February 7, 2009 at 22:04

When I was a child it meant ‘thank you sister for not beating me’!

Ch February 7, 2009 at 22:01

In general it means “Thank you!”. Literally it means “May good things be
bestowed upon you”.

Hi, Janes:-)
Off to play cards with Maman. Cu

janes February 7, 2009 at 21:55

And what about those Irish, do they want ID cards? N

Coco February 7, 2009 at 21:03

Awwwwwww! This looks like I am deliberately goadin people to argue about
Welsh heritage but I am genuinely not!

In fact ………… I think the Commentariat should invade Wales before we go into
Iran! It will be good for our morale!

I shall go in armed with daffodils and leeks ……………… If I invade Ireland I
will take Robert Kilroy-Silk! What was that about peasants and pixies?!!!

If I invade England I will take contraceptives and lager and red-bull!

Coco February 7, 2009 at 20:57

My Hubby has just said that the Welsh only use the Welsh language to fuck
the English off when they walk into the pub!

He said it’s probably so they can discuss their intimate private business
which is mainly concerned with getting the English to stop buying country
retreats as second homes …………….. He would wax lyrical about a number of houses
that got burned down a few years ago – if I allowed him to ………….. He has the
memory of an elephant ……………. And lots of Welsh ancestry to back it all
up!!!

Coco February 7, 2009 at 20:52

janes ………….. I cannot agree more! We are doomed! It’s all monitor, monitor,
monitor. It is to ensure that the naturally uncompliant are tagged.

More and more passivity is being created through all the major of forms
media …………. not to mention the sheer amount of tranquilisers and
anti-depressants that doctors are flinging at everybody.!

Doctors are part of the New World Order ……….. along with the police.

I must remind all readers NOT to have a friendly chat with their wholesome
family doctor about a weed they had fifteen years ago …………… And certainly
never mention any mushroom trips!!!

Don’t tell your GP that your kids are driving you through the roof and
don’t mention your wife knocking off one of the neighbours! It WILL be written
down and used aginst you at some stage …………. Especially if you ever go to a
work tribunal or if you try to complain against the police or any other
authority.

I urge everybody to take out private health insurance and use a private
doctor or even two …………. to stay ahead of the game.

It’s also about time that the Welsh stopped thinking of themselves as a
separate tribe! Otherwise they will end up like the Scots!

If somebody wants to continue speaking a language that is to all intents
and purposes redundant ………. that is fine ………… but they must not be allowed to
force it on everybody else.

And it is bugger-all use in the days of rapid communication and the
internet. I have a couple of friends who were subjected to knuckle-rapping by
some mad old Welsh woman who was paid a fortune to instill her charges with a
fourth language!

They remember bach ……… and that’s about it!

janes February 7, 2009 at 19:32

And if that isn’t bad enough, Chris Hedges on AlterNet observes: A
corporate media controls nearly everything we read, watch or hear and imposes
a bland uniformity of opinion or diverts us with trivia and celebrity gossip.
In classical totalitarian regimes, such as Nazi fascism or Soviet communism,
economics was subordinate to politics.

janes February 7, 2009 at 17:59

We are already tracked in everything we do, see and say. Everwhere we go we
can be traced. And here we all are giving them even more profiling fodder as
we use the internet. Ever tried saying ‘enigma’ during an innocent telephone
conversation – and maybe even on an innocent blog. ID cards could well be the
least of our problems.