Alarmed by rising house prices and personal debt, Vince Cable saw the recession coming long before his political opponents - and it turned out he had the solutions, too. So where does the Lib Dems' economics expert think we go from here?

They haven't even fully launched it yet, but our worst fears are being confirmed (see the NO2ID Take Jane page: http://www.no2id.net/TakeJane/)

THE Home Office has quietly adopted a new plan to allow police across Britain routinely to hack into people’s personal computers without a warrant.

"I have watched Labour compromise its principles, embrace greed and take the UK into war and recession. Torture is the last straw", says former Labour leadership contender Bryan Gould.

IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH! FREEDOM IS SLAVERY!

Apparently "If you've nothing to hide, you've nothing to fear" doesn't apply to MPs. Or they have something to hide.

For the record

Brilliant.

... but it took our expert 12 minutes to clone one, and programme it with false data. (Yup, once again it's the Daily Mail, not exactly the paper of choice for most civil liberties campaigners, leading the way with investigative reporting into the dangers to our civil liberties posed by the government.)

The leak was sent to Phil Booth of NO2ID, which campaigns against the ID cards. “This is quite extraordinary. Has every employee of these five companies and all their subcontractors working on the ID scheme been made aware of the fact that their homes could be entered and searched without a warrant at any time in the next 25 years?” he said.