In Defence of Digital ID – Wait, Hear Me Out
National identity cards are, as everyone should know, a terrible idea. But modern Digital ID, based on crypto block chain technology and protective of privacy, is a very different animal.
National identity cards are, as everyone should know, a terrible idea. But modern Digital ID, based on crypto block chain technology and protective of privacy, is a very different animal.
NatWest Group boss Alison Rose has admitted she was the source of the BBC's incorrect story about Nigel Farage's de-banking fiasco – but, ludicrously, the bank's board has said it still has "full confidence" in her.
The Government's response to the pandemic was to cast aside all restraint on untrammelled power and plunge the country into authoritarianism. We pulled back from the brink, says Guy de la Bédoyère, but only just.
The Left collaborated unquestioningly with the authoritarian programmes and regulations of the emerging Global Biosecurity State because it long ago lost its commitment to freedom and the working class, says Simon Elmer.
President Xi’s Zero Covid is the contemporary equivalent of China’s one-child policy – a form of totalitarian control that has become an end in itself, argues Ian Williams in the Spectator.
Matthew Crawford explains in UnHerd why our highly educated, apparently rational, left-of-centre elites are so vulnerable to capture by quasi-religious cults, whether wokery pokery, climate hysteria, or Covidian 'science'.
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