Willcock v Muckle sounds absurdly English as a court case yet we could all become familiar with it all too soon. In 1950 a respectable gentleman named Willcock was stopped and asked to produce his identity card. He said the war had ended five years before and he no longer carried one. Lord Goddard agreed in court.The new hi-tech all singing all dancing Identity cards can be cloned. Suicide bombers are not overworried about matters such as carrying ID cards. Criminals will use aliases. Who, then, will be benefit? At an outrageous cost (not just financial but personal) the idiocy of using such a form of identification is apparent. I shall refuse to carry one. Or I could change my name to Wolfeschegelsteinenhausenfeldenburgendorff. Or be truly inventive and perhaps by deed poll to something like Brydges-Chandos-Grenville-Nugent-Temple.                                                                          Would you mind try to write that out in triplicate, Constable.