Watch out for Big Brother

摘要

I thought the Big Brother Award for Daft Authoritarian Scheme of the Year should go to TV's Blue Peter. The BBC children's programme is now issuing ID cards in an attempt to damp down on the sale of Blue Peter badges on eBay which, henceforth, will be illegal and classified as fraud. However, the Blue Peter producers have been pipped to the post by South Tyneside MBC. It has just announced that Brinkburn Secondary School is installing a fingerprint-recognition system at the dinner queue as a method of payment for meals.