Trouble in Embryo

Readers of a certain vintage may recall that the Reverend Blair once raised the possibility of detecting criminal and terroristic tendencies in the unborn and, if not aborting the culprits (the Reverend Blair is a Papist, though at that time presumably still a covert one), then at least enabling them to start life with an appropriate black mark on their forthcoming biometric ID card. Given the moral supremacy of the Reverend Blair as both electoral trifectista and enthusiastic wog-bomber, Team Starmer has naturally taken up the concept of anticipatory guilt as realised by the Fishy Rishi administration, though under the tactful rubric of sharing data to improve risk assessment as opposed to homicide prediction project. Utilising the skills of its in-house psychic, Britain's leading liberal newspaper has ascertained that the Ministry for Profitable Incarceration hopes to boost public safety, and almost certainly does not consider throwing taxpayers' money at some pet algorithm-spouters to be a moderate and sensible end in itself. Since the project is for research purposes only, the human data will not be anonymised and the Ministry for Profitable Incarceration will almost certainly not be passing on individuals' names and their associated disabilities or mental health conditions to anyone who might care to inspect them in return for some minor and purely coincidental corporate consideration.