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A Year Ago: Tory MP says don't blame hackers
News A senior Conservative MP believes hackers may not be responsible for hacking into the Tory party's bank account, despite reports in the national press. Tory chairman Michael Ancram last night called in Scotland Yard to hunt for computer hackers he...
[November 24, 2000, 5:01]
Tory leader compares music piracy with child abuse
Blog Tory leader David Cameron has delivered a speech to the AGM of the BPI, and seems to be telling the music industry exactly what it wants to hear. Up to now Cameron has appeared to have taken an informed and un-Tory view of the world - noticeable on...
[July 6, 2007, 18:30]
Tory MP says don't blame hackers
News A senior Conservative MP believes hackers may not be responsible for hacking into the Tory party's bank account, despite reports in the national press. Tory chairman Michael Ancram last night called in Scotland Yard to hunt for computer hackers he...
[November 24, 1999, 13:19]
Why I am now a Technology Tory
Blog If the classic definition of being Tory is a dislike of big government and a hankering after the clarity of the past, I now find myself happy to be classed as such. What has 'gone wrong' in so much of business use of IT, it seems to me, after not...
[July 24, 2008, 16:44]
ID card bill gets Tory boost
News Tory leader Michael Howard has quashed disagreement within the shadow cabinet to officially offer Conservative backing to Downing Street's ID card plans. In a statement, the Tory leadership said: "The Party will give its support in principle at...
[December 14, 2004, 13:55]
Election 2001: Tory manifesto embraces freedom of the Net
News The Tory e-manifesto additionally voices concern over the financial impact this Act will have on businesses forced to comply. The Conservative party is proposing a laissez-faire approach towards regulating the Internet space, in contradiction with...
[May 22, 2001, 12:46]
Tory rage over Ofcom stitch-up
News The selection process for the position is not set to begin until next year, and the Tory party has branded the notion of appointing such a highly political figure for an independent watchdog role as "absolutely unacceptable".
[August 21, 2001, 9:26]
Tory resigns
Talkback I have posted a number of times, here and elsewhere, on these and similar matters so I won't repeat myself. I would like to think that this will be the beginning of a new approach to politics and that the Conservatives will reconsider their core...
[June 13, 2008, 9:04]
Fujitsu shrugs off Tory threat to cancel ID cards
News The European boss of Fujitsu, one of the contractors to the National Identity Scheme, said he does not fear a Conservative victory at the next election. The party's shadow home secretary, David Davis, has written to Fujitsu Services and the other...
[June 4, 2008, 8:56]
Tory Party promises to abolish IR35
News While IT consultants try to work out how the recent high court ruling on IR35 affects them, the Conservative Party has vowed to abolish the controversial tax if it wins the coming General Election. IR35 was introduced by the government in April...
[May 11, 2001, 16:43]
Tory Nasa hacker vote lost
Talkback Labour made this a whipped vote and consequently carried the day. Parliament, under such public scrutiny just now, is still a bloody disgrace. Parliamentary shinnanigans before the genuine interests of the country and the people.
[July 17, 2009, 9:24]
Tory think tank proposes new data model
News A Conservative think tank has proposed an alternative model for managing personal data used in public services. It's ours: Why we, not government, must own our data, published by the Centre for Policy Studies and written by Liam Maxwell, says...
[June 29, 2009, 12:48]
Tory minister: 'We don't want Big Brother'
News Communications data has a role to play in combating terrorism and organised crime, but the government needs to examine some big questions before setting up a database, shadow security minister Baroness Pauline Neville-Jones tells ZDNet UK.
[November 12, 2008, 6:30]
Top Tory resigns over 'database state'
News Shadow home secretary David Davis has resigned over what he called "the slow strangulation of fundamental British freedoms by this government". Following a vote by the House of Commons on Wednesday to extend the length of time terrorist suspects...
[June 12, 2008, 14:57]
Commons passes ID Card Bill
Talkback If the reasons given by the Tory Party for abstention are correct, they should have voted against the Bill. As a traditional Tory suppoter, I find that encreasingly it is the House ofLlords which provides the opposition which represents my views...
[February 14, 2005, 20:42]
How will the election affect IR35?
News Now the Tory Party says that if it wins the election, it will scrap the unpopular rule. Tory Party promises to abolish IR35 The government claims that IR35 was brought in to stop the "Friday to Monday" syndrome -- where IT workers resign their...
[May 19, 2001, 10:06]
Vote-swapping site aims to defeat Tories
News According to the Web site vote-swappers have "nothing to lose but a Tory MP". There are dozens of UK seats with majorities of under 2000 that could very easily be swung by voteswappers -- contributing to a historic Tory meltdown that might bring...
[April 19, 2001, 8:04]
Jane Wakefield: Will technology catch election fever?
News Given Labour's recent decision to stick an upperclass ex-Tory in the stoutly working class constituency of St Helens it could be any old Tom, Dick or Harry. Some over-eager Tory geek has registered www.newlabour.co.uk and redirected visitors to the...
[May 15, 2001, 8:44]
Data watchdog lacks bite for business lapses
Comment The Tory focus on punishing data breaches in the public sector risks letting business failings off the hook, says Alan Calder. Last week, the Conservatives announced plans to 'reverse the rise of the surveillance state', with expanded powers for...
[September 24, 2009, 12:20]
Politicians go in for some IT bashing
Blog Although mistaking the Tory party for anything more than an extremely skilled spin device at present - think a Dyson washing machine - would be a serious mistake, we were slightly impressed by Shadow Chancellor George Osborne's very tech-savvy...
[March 19, 2007, 16:10]
