Blair New World Revisited

Philip Johnston in the Times has an excellent review of how the Blair government turned Britain into the land of the telescreen and the Thoughtpolice. It also has a quote from Peter Lilley, the former Cabinet minister, about the scheme to introduce ID cards that encapsulates the totalitarian mindset beautifully (emphasis added):

There is no policy that has been hawked, unsold, around Whitehall for longer than identity cards. It was always brought to us as a solution looking for problems.

Read the whole thing, as the kids say.