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Read the piece and subscribe here:
www.thenerve.news/p/digital-id...
www.thenerve.news/p/digital-id...
If Keir Starmer's digital ID is the question, Tony Blair is the answer
The government's wildly unpopular new policy is backed by Britain’s wildly unpopular former PM. It’s also a techno-authoritarian’s wet dream, argues Carole Cadwalladr
www.thenerve.news
December 9, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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www.thenerve.news/p/digital-id...
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With Digital ID, Starmer has pulled off a remarkable feat - he's united Nigel Farage, Zack Polanski, Jeremy Corbyn, Kemi Badenoch, Boris Johnson & Ed Davey on the same team.
December 10, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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With Digital ID, Starmer has pulled off a remarkable feat - he's united Nigel Farage, Zack Polanski, Jeremy Corbyn, Kemi Badenoch, Boris Johnson & Ed Davey on the same team.
December 10, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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With Digital ID, Starmer has pulled off a remarkable feat - he's united Nigel Farage, Zack Polanski, Jeremy Corbyn, Kemi Badenoch, Boris Johnson & Ed Davey on the same team.
December 10, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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So today I found out that my TED talk ‘This is What a Digital Coup Looks Like’ was TED’s most watched talk of the year.
It’s sort of amazing & terrifying. Because this *is* what a digital coup looks like.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOo...
It’s sort of amazing & terrifying. Because this *is* what a digital coup looks like.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOo...
This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like | Carole Cadwalladr | TED
YouTube video by TED
www.youtube.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:29 PM
So today I found out that my TED talk ‘This is What a Digital Coup Looks Like’ was TED’s most watched talk of the year.
It’s sort of amazing & terrifying. Because this *is* what a digital coup looks like.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOo...
It’s sort of amazing & terrifying. Because this *is* what a digital coup looks like.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOo...
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Sweet Jesus Starmer’s here to make the headlines about immigration again. The actual worst politician I’ve ever seen 🤦♀️🤦♀️
Today - are foreigners really human? Should they REALLY enjoy human rights protections like the rest of us? #r4today
Today - are foreigners really human? Should they REALLY enjoy human rights protections like the rest of us? #r4today
December 10, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Sweet Jesus Starmer’s here to make the headlines about immigration again. The actual worst politician I’ve ever seen 🤦♀️🤦♀️
Today - are foreigners really human? Should they REALLY enjoy human rights protections like the rest of us? #r4today
Today - are foreigners really human? Should they REALLY enjoy human rights protections like the rest of us? #r4today
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A "techno-authoritarian's wet dream": @carolecadwalla.bsky.social for the Nerve on digital ID
www.thenerve.news/p/digital-id...
www.thenerve.news/p/digital-id...
December 9, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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A "techno-authoritarian's wet dream": @carolecadwalla.bsky.social for the Nerve on digital ID
www.thenerve.news/p/digital-id...
www.thenerve.news/p/digital-id...
December 9, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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A "techno-authoritarian's wet dream": @carolecadwalla.bsky.social for the Nerve on digital ID
www.thenerve.news/p/digital-id...
www.thenerve.news/p/digital-id...
December 9, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Agreed. It allows you decorate a flat elegantly when you're not well off. And even when you're better off, you can save money by buying one expensive centrepiece item - the basin, the bath, whatever - then getting everything else from IKEA. People will presume they're more expensive than they are.
I love IKEA. I wouldn't have been able to afford to furnish my first home without it. I still use the splatter screen I bought for £2.50 in 2001 whenever I cook a big batch of bolognese sauce. It's better to buy local and second hand where available, but if it's not, then IKEA is a good option.
December 8, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Agreed. It allows you decorate a flat elegantly when you're not well off. And even when you're better off, you can save money by buying one expensive centrepiece item - the basin, the bath, whatever - then getting everything else from IKEA. People will presume they're more expensive than they are.
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‘What’s going on?’ asks Laura Kuenssberg - suddenly fired up with Labour.
Funny how that energy was missing during 14 years of Tory rule.
So the real question:
Where were you then, Laura?
Your scrutiny felt absent, and Boris Johnson, whom you once called ‘gifted politician’, never got this heat.
Funny how that energy was missing during 14 years of Tory rule.
So the real question:
Where were you then, Laura?
Your scrutiny felt absent, and Boris Johnson, whom you once called ‘gifted politician’, never got this heat.
December 7, 2025 at 9:56 AM
‘What’s going on?’ asks Laura Kuenssberg - suddenly fired up with Labour.
Funny how that energy was missing during 14 years of Tory rule.
So the real question:
Where were you then, Laura?
Your scrutiny felt absent, and Boris Johnson, whom you once called ‘gifted politician’, never got this heat.
Funny how that energy was missing during 14 years of Tory rule.
So the real question:
Where were you then, Laura?
Your scrutiny felt absent, and Boris Johnson, whom you once called ‘gifted politician’, never got this heat.
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The calls from America this weekend to "abolish the EU" are for one simple reason: the EU is the only thing that can keep European nation-states from becoming Russian or American vassals.
The US has declared rhetorical war on the EU
The calls from America this weekend to destroy the EU are revealing. They hate the union because it's the only thing that can keep European countries from being Russian or American vassals.
davekeating.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 8:05 AM
The calls from America this weekend to "abolish the EU" are for one simple reason: the EU is the only thing that can keep European nation-states from becoming Russian or American vassals.
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🔴The Reform-Backed Far-Right Street Patrols Coming to British School Gates
EXCLUSIVE: Nationalist vigilante groups, with links to Neo-Nazis and support of Reform figures, have been falsely claiming police backing while attempting to infiltrate local school networks
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/02/t...
EXCLUSIVE: Nationalist vigilante groups, with links to Neo-Nazis and support of Reform figures, have been falsely claiming police backing while attempting to infiltrate local school networks
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/02/t...
The Reform-Backed Far-Right Street Patrols Coming to British School Gates
EXCLUSIVE: Nationalist vigilante groups, with links to Neo-Nazis, and the support of senior Reform figures, have been falsely claiming police backing while attempting to infiltrate local school networ...
bylinetimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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🔴The Reform-Backed Far-Right Street Patrols Coming to British School Gates
EXCLUSIVE: Nationalist vigilante groups, with links to Neo-Nazis and support of Reform figures, have been falsely claiming police backing while attempting to infiltrate local school networks
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/02/t...
EXCLUSIVE: Nationalist vigilante groups, with links to Neo-Nazis and support of Reform figures, have been falsely claiming police backing while attempting to infiltrate local school networks
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/02/t...
The Reform-Backed Far-Right Street Patrols Coming to British School Gates
EXCLUSIVE: Nationalist vigilante groups, with links to Neo-Nazis, and the support of senior Reform figures, have been falsely claiming police backing while attempting to infiltrate local school networ...
bylinetimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Vigilante far-right 'street patrols' with links to Neo-Nazis and the support of senior Reform UK figures, are falsely claiming police backing, while attempting to infiltrate school networks in order to "protect" local children.
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/02/t...
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/02/t...
The Reform-Backed Far-Right Street Patrols Coming to British School Gates
EXCLUSIVE: Nationalist vigilante groups, with links to Neo-Nazis, and the support of senior Reform figures, have been falsely claiming police backing while attempting to infiltrate local school networ...
bylinetimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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UK Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has unveiled “the most sweeping asylum reforms in modern times.” But anti-slavery campaigners warn the proposals will only increase vulnerability to trafficking, forced labor, and exploitation.
UK Home Secretary’s “sweeping asylum reforms” spark urgent trafficking concerns - FreedomUnited.org
UK's new asylum reforms spark concern that harsher rules will fuel modern slavery conditions instead of protecting those at risk.
www.freedomunited.org
November 25, 2025 at 2:00 PM
UK Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has unveiled “the most sweeping asylum reforms in modern times.” But anti-slavery campaigners warn the proposals will only increase vulnerability to trafficking, forced labor, and exploitation.
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🔴Shabana Mahmood’s Asylum Seeker Military ‘Warehousing’ Plans Delayed Amid Opposition by Labour MPs
Home Office sources tell Byline Times local Labour MPs are opposing plans by the Home Secretary to use barracks and army bases to house asylum seekers amid rising tensions
Home Office sources tell Byline Times local Labour MPs are opposing plans by the Home Secretary to use barracks and army bases to house asylum seekers amid rising tensions
Shabana Mahmood's Asylum Seeker Military 'Warehousing' Plans Delayed Amid Opposition by Labour MPs
Home Office sources tell Byline Times that local Labour MPs are opposing plans by the Home Secretary to use barracks and army bases to house asylum seekers amid rising community tensions
bylinetimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:00 PM
🔴Shabana Mahmood’s Asylum Seeker Military ‘Warehousing’ Plans Delayed Amid Opposition by Labour MPs
Home Office sources tell Byline Times local Labour MPs are opposing plans by the Home Secretary to use barracks and army bases to house asylum seekers amid rising tensions
Home Office sources tell Byline Times local Labour MPs are opposing plans by the Home Secretary to use barracks and army bases to house asylum seekers amid rising tensions
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Fair play, to the boy @peterjukes.bsky.social & the crew @BylineTimes.bsky.social.
Not sure you’d see a deep dark dive into imagery/peer pressure/apocalyptic violence like this anywhere else!
Refreshingly brain-curdling. Or something. But chapeau…
#media #internet #politics
Not sure you’d see a deep dark dive into imagery/peer pressure/apocalyptic violence like this anywhere else!
Refreshingly brain-curdling. Or something. But chapeau…
#media #internet #politics
December 4, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Fair play, to the boy @peterjukes.bsky.social & the crew @BylineTimes.bsky.social.
Not sure you’d see a deep dark dive into imagery/peer pressure/apocalyptic violence like this anywhere else!
Refreshingly brain-curdling. Or something. But chapeau…
#media #internet #politics
Not sure you’d see a deep dark dive into imagery/peer pressure/apocalyptic violence like this anywhere else!
Refreshingly brain-curdling. Or something. But chapeau…
#media #internet #politics
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My investigation into far-right street patrol, Essex Spartans, builds with this sequel to Concierge Nationalism, exposing the linked networks, from Reform U.K. to Tommy Robinson and Neo-Nazi Homeland group. shorturl.at/wguFn
December 4, 2025 at 6:14 PM
My investigation into far-right street patrol, Essex Spartans, builds with this sequel to Concierge Nationalism, exposing the linked networks, from Reform U.K. to Tommy Robinson and Neo-Nazi Homeland group. shorturl.at/wguFn
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🔴The ‘Pink Ladies’ Laundering Anti-Migrant Views Into the Mainstream
An anti-migrant movement backed by Reform and Conservative politicians and regularly invited onto news channels is funded by a far-right group and has platformed a Neo-Nazi activist, @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social reports
An anti-migrant movement backed by Reform and Conservative politicians and regularly invited onto news channels is funded by a far-right group and has platformed a Neo-Nazi activist, @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social reports
The 'Pink Ladies' Laundering Anti-Migrant Views Into the Mainstream
An anti-migrant movement backed by Reform and Conservative politicians and regularly invited onto news channels is funded by a far-right group and has platformed a Neo-Nazi activist
bylinetimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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🔴The ‘Pink Ladies’ Laundering Anti-Migrant Views Into the Mainstream
An anti-migrant movement backed by Reform and Conservative politicians and regularly invited onto news channels is funded by a far-right group and has platformed a Neo-Nazi activist, @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social reports
An anti-migrant movement backed by Reform and Conservative politicians and regularly invited onto news channels is funded by a far-right group and has platformed a Neo-Nazi activist, @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social reports
The 'Pink Ladies' Laundering Anti-Migrant Views Into the Mainstream
An anti-migrant movement backed by Reform and Conservative politicians and regularly invited onto news channels is funded by a far-right group and has platformed a Neo-Nazi activist
bylinetimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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🔴The ‘Pink Ladies’ Laundering Anti-Migrant Views Into the Mainstream
An anti-migrant movement backed by Reform and Conservative politicians and regularly invited onto news channels is funded by a far-right group and has platformed a Neo-Nazi activist, @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social reports
An anti-migrant movement backed by Reform and Conservative politicians and regularly invited onto news channels is funded by a far-right group and has platformed a Neo-Nazi activist, @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social reports
The 'Pink Ladies' Laundering Anti-Migrant Views Into the Mainstream
An anti-migrant movement backed by Reform and Conservative politicians and regularly invited onto news channels is funded by a far-right group and has platformed a Neo-Nazi activist
bylinetimes.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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PolitlcsUK Twitter account has c 400k followers. Labour ministers often give exclusive interviews
But it's part-owned by an ex-Tory MP turned lobbyist - who bought it for £100
Ben Howlett:'I'm like that Nigerian guy on the internet, always working out who the stupid person is, except for politics'
But it's part-owned by an ex-Tory MP turned lobbyist - who bought it for £100
Ben Howlett:'I'm like that Nigerian guy on the internet, always working out who the stupid person is, except for politics'
December 6, 2025 at 12:09 PM
PolitlcsUK Twitter account has c 400k followers. Labour ministers often give exclusive interviews
But it's part-owned by an ex-Tory MP turned lobbyist - who bought it for £100
Ben Howlett:'I'm like that Nigerian guy on the internet, always working out who the stupid person is, except for politics'
But it's part-owned by an ex-Tory MP turned lobbyist - who bought it for £100
Ben Howlett:'I'm like that Nigerian guy on the internet, always working out who the stupid person is, except for politics'
60% of the British public agree: our voting system is not fit for purpose.
The upcoming Elections Bill is a chance to fix it.
I just signed a @makevotesmatter.bsky.social petition to the Democracy Minister, calling for Proportional Representation. Add your name: actionnetwork.org/petitions/pe...
The upcoming Elections Bill is a chance to fix it.
I just signed a @makevotesmatter.bsky.social petition to the Democracy Minister, calling for Proportional Representation. Add your name: actionnetwork.org/petitions/pe...
Petition to Democracy Minister
First Past The Post undermines our politics.
It leaves most of us with MPs we didn't vote for, and keeps delivering results that don't represent public opinion.
The upcoming Elections Bill is a chan...
actionnetwork.org
December 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
60% of the British public agree: our voting system is not fit for purpose.
The upcoming Elections Bill is a chance to fix it.
I just signed a @makevotesmatter.bsky.social petition to the Democracy Minister, calling for Proportional Representation. Add your name: actionnetwork.org/petitions/pe...
The upcoming Elections Bill is a chance to fix it.
I just signed a @makevotesmatter.bsky.social petition to the Democracy Minister, calling for Proportional Representation. Add your name: actionnetwork.org/petitions/pe...
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@adambienkov.bsky.social
@unlockdemocracy.bsky.social
On ITV News tonight
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On ITV News tonight
quality stuff from Peter and the gang
December 4, 2025 at 12:04 PM