And on the seventh day Tony Blair created...

As reported in The Observer (Graunaid) on Sun 3 Aug:

Blair "has set up a ministerial working group in the Home Office charged with injecting religious ideas 'across Whitehall'. ... Blair's move is believed to have the strong support of the two other leading Christian members of the Cabinet, David Blunkett, the Home Secretary, and Paul Boateng, Chief Secretary of the Treasury.

The working group ['Faith Community Liaison Group'] will be chaired by the Home Office Minister with responsibility for what is called 'civic renewal', Fiona Mactaggart. The members will include Estelle Morris, the former Education Secretary who is now the Arts Minister, and Christian organisations including the Evangelical Alliance.

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Keith Wood, executive director of the National Secular Society, which includes in its membership a number of Labour MPs, said ... that despite repeated requests non-religious groups have been excluded from any involvement in the religious working group."

I happen to be in the constituency of a "Working Group" member, so we may well be lobbying in person on this issue. www.FaxYourMP.org is available.

(Thanks to yonmei for the heads-up on this)

DVLA etc

Helpful response from the local "Safety Camera"* office - apparently the registered keeper of the vehicle nominated the unknown person at our address as the driver of the vehicle at the time that it was imaged. We should not receive any further correspondence on this matter, apparently.

* The rant about how speed only sometimes causes significant decrease in safety; and how many other significant forms of unsafe road use there are other than raw speed, deferred to another time.