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Resisting the Digital Prison of a National ID

BY SEAN WALSH To steal and misapply a line from Woody Allen in Annie Hall it’s looking like Keir Starmer’s notion of compulsory digital ID won’t even make it to the concept stage, let alone become a workable idea. Colour us unsurprised. Starmer’s saving grace, his accidental virtue, is a preternatural incompetence attached to an unmatchable personal detestability. He delivers policy in the same way … Continue reading Resisting the Digital Prison of a National ID

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Remember How Liberty Slips Away Quietly

BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN Freedom is rarely abolished in thunderclaps. It disappears in murmurs – a statute amended here, a civil liberty waived there, always with plausible justification. These small surrenders accumulate like snowfall, each flake weightless until the branch snaps. By the time we notice the drift, we’re already buried beneath it. History’s lesson is written in palimpsest: the Roman Republic’s slow strangulation by emergency … Continue reading Remember How Liberty Slips Away Quietly

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Freedom V Safety

BY QUENTIN PIGG Across the Western world, politicians heap disdain upon the democracy which saw them elected. Though voters have become accustomed to being threatened, coerced and shamed by their government, a recent speech from the Scottish Labour Leader somehow managed to be so shocking as to surpass all three of these tragic expectations. Anas Sarwar warned Scotland’s unvaccinated citizens that ‘we know where you … Continue reading Freedom V Safety

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The Third American Revolution

BY EFFIE DEANS When the Thirteen Colonies rebelled against Britain, slavery existed in each of them and did so legally. In Britain by contrast the Somerset v Stewart case (1772) made explicit what had been implicit for centuries – that there was no basis for slavery in law in Britain. If a slave entered Britain, he was thereby made free. In 1807 Britain abolished the … Continue reading The Third American Revolution

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What Drives Corbyn’s Young Lemmings?

BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN When Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn holds his rallies, he not only entices the old, battered diehards of Britain’s far-left – those from Militant to the Socialist Workers Party to Left Unity – he also attracts considerable numbers of youthful political virgins, who have never joined a political party before. I have concluded that these people are wandering inadvertently into socialism; swallowing assumptions … Continue reading What Drives Corbyn’s Young Lemmings?

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