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

countrysquiremagazineSeptember 29, 2025September 28, 2025

Thoughts

On Liberty Lost

BY EFFIE DEANS You don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone I remember growing up and being told that we had fought the two world wars to protect our freedom and that the difference between us and Russia during the Cold War was that we had freedom, and they did not. It turns out that I was duped and that it was all just … Continue reading On Liberty Lost

countrysquiremagazineSeptember 4, 2024September 3, 20242 Comments

Opinion

1984 No Blueprint

BY PAUL NEWALL The other week I warned of the dangers of vaccine passports. I thought at the time that it’d be a few months before their introduction but lo and behold a revamped version of the NHS track and trace app includes this enhancement below. So, it transpires that my concerns were somewhat understated. Basically, as it is plain to see, your whole life … Continue reading 1984 No Blueprint

countrysquiremagazineMay 26, 2021May 26, 2021

scotland

Let’s Never Heil Humza

BY EFFIE DEANS Nicola Sturgeon once said that independence transcends everything else. This is the main problem with the SNP. It also explains what might appear to be otherwise unrelated issues. Humza Yousaf has explained that he wants to punish Scots for having insulting conversations at home. While we would retain the right to be offensive anyone stirring up hatred against various protected groups will … Continue reading Let’s Never Heil Humza

countrysquiremagazineNovember 2, 2020November 2, 2020

Social Commentary

Orthodoxy Sniffers

BY QUENTIN PIGG In Britain, one has to go through the ridiculous charade of downplaying things which are obvious to many but spoken by few. If your assertion is yet to find its way into the digestive tract of the media, then to express it in the presence of so-called learned people will award you the label of a ‘reactionary’. It is this position that … Continue reading Orthodoxy Sniffers

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Resisting the Digital Prison of a National ID

On Liberty Lost

1984 No Blueprint

Let’s Never Heil Humza