You read it here first. All this Charles Clarke foreign offenders stuff is a double-bluff to sell us the idea of ID cards. The bastards* are cleverer than we give them credit.
Various episodes of South Park that have been banned for offending religious nutters' sensitivities (including the Tom Cruise scientology one) are available for download here.
When the hell are they going to learn? The old rules on gagging just don't apply any more. The Internet has changed all that and there are too many of us. This may or may not be a picture of the News of the Screws' Fake Sheikh Mazher Mahmood, published in solidarity with various people who believe in freedom of speech and who don't think that Murdoch should be allowed to push us around.
At last, David Cameron has started talking like an opposition leader. He has described UKIP as "fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists". Come on, David, much more of the same, please. Can you turn the big guns on the conceited, neo-con, corrupt war criminals of New Labour, please?