{"id":296,"date":"2007-03-25T10:47:51","date_gmt":"2007-03-25T09:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2007\/03\/25\/telegraph_a_passport_to_misery"},"modified":"2025-10-10T11:14:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T10:14:55","slug":"telegraph_a_passport_to_misery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2007\/03\/25\/telegraph_a_passport_to_misery","title":{"rendered":"Telegraph: a passport to misery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title = \"A passport to misery, if you ask me...\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/opinion\/main.jhtml?xml=\/opinion\/2007\/03\/25\/do2506.xml\">Sunday Telegraph: A passport to misery, if you ask me&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jenny McCartney, in today&#39;s <em>Sunday Telegraph<\/em>, on the bureaucratic nightmare that the British government&#39;s demand that all new passport applicants attend a face-to-face interview at one of twenty interviewing centres (at their own expense, of course).  Among those to be asked is when, <em>precisely<\/em>, they moved into their present address, something I could not answer off the top of my head.  I know it was in the second half of September 2001, but that&#39;s about all.  A few weeks ago, of course, they used the excuse that it would be a once-in-a-lifetime thing &#8211; now they are telling us that people renewing their passports will have to do the same from 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday Telegraph: A passport to misery, if you ask me&#8230; Jenny McCartney, in today&#39;s Sunday Telegraph, on the bureaucratic nightmare that the British government&#39;s demand that all new passport applicants attend a face-to-face interview&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil_liberties"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-4M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42091,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions\/42091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}