These are my links for May 5th:

• ID cards? Government can't be trusted with our personal information - Scotsman.com News - There are plenty of good reasons why we don't need identity cards. Data security is not one of them. To argue against government having data is to argue against the welfare state.
• Will Hutton: Feeble government lets the superclass soar over the rest of us | Comment is free | The Observer - And Hutton is right: there is enormous political risk in this
• Tax Justice Network: Financial secrecy in America, abetting war criminals - The evidence is unambiguous