Yet more state control:

Police are routinely arresting people simply to record their DNA profiles on the national database, according to a report published today.

But of course they are. Is anyone surprised by this? Anyone at all?

This isn't an aberration, this is an aspiration of the government. They won't be happy until we all exist on a database. Be it spurious arrests, or an ID card scheme, or whatever, they will find a way to justify claiming your identity for their database. And this all comes down to how the government views you - as a commodity that needs to be categorised. Like a living, breathing, library book.