Home Office Admits Larger Data Loss

Home Office coughs up to larger data loss • The Register

The Home Office has admitted to losing a quarter of a million more records than it originally thought.

The figure is revealed in its Resource Accounts for 2008-2009. PA Consulting lost a memory stick last September, which was originally reported to contain details on 127,000 people. In fact the stick, which remains lost, contained records on 377,000 people, Kable reveals.

Enough said.

Jacqui Shock Least Wanted LabourList Lisbon Cock-Up

US shock-jock Michael Savage has said he will 'sue' Jaqui Smith for including him on the Home office's list of people banned from entering the UK (the so-called 'least wanted' list)*. I think he won't but it's a nice idea.

Here's peter Bowes on the BBC's Today programme. And an article in The Times and comment from View From Middle England.

Are there no limits to the talents and intellectual reach of our Home Secretary, given her love of ID cards, intrusive surveillance and desire to tell us what to do all the time? Obviously not, given that she has no talent and no intellect.

As for Derek Draper, it looks like he has been defenestrated from LabourList, according to Iain Dale.

Angels in Marble thinks the Conservatives are frightened of talking about the EU and the Lisbon Constitution. A fair comment, given that they'll be compelled to toe the line - which will include part-privatising the Post Office.



* The blacklist includes: Abdullah Qadri al-Ahdal, Yunis al-Astal, Samir al-Quntar, Stephen Donald Black, Wadgy Abd el-Hamied Mohamed Ghoneim, Erich Gliebe, Mike Guzovsky, Safwat Hijazi, Nasr Javed, Abdul Ali Musa (previously Clarence Reams), Fred Waldron Phelps Sr, Shirley Phelps-Roper, Artur Ryno, Amir Siddique, Pavel Skachevsky and Michael Alan Weiner (aka Michael Savage)
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