All the above documents can be spread through many local and national government departments, which don't always talk to each other efficiently, and not everyone has all or even some of those, I have no passport, no driving license, no ID at all with my picture on it in fact. I'm also retired...

Plenty of slippery slope arguments about future governments, yet various mandatory ID schemes are in place all over the world, ranging from basic ID to highly integrated ID which captures almost all available human data.

Nationalism is on the rise, underpinned by populism.

Lord Dampnut intends to rule by 'trial balloons', small increments to see what he can get away with, with increasing levels if people don't push back enough.

UK free speech crackdown accusations from someone who's presently giving interviews to TV and newspapers and getting them broadcast and published ...

That's what she claims, despite receiving as low as possible sentence for the crime she was convicted for, as usual the hyperbolic claims she was railroaded, that her sentence was the maximum possible to set an example etc, the judge was lenient and took time off for previous record and guilty plea.

Why? They are the aggressors, the most Putin could hope for would be removal of some sanctions. He deserves zero territory.

Russia could easily guarantee the security of it's warships in the Black Sea, simply move them out of the Black Sea ...

Yep, he says and does what his last advisor told him, he's just that, a useful puppet

Trial balloons, Lord Dampnut is seeing how much he can get away with, and normalising the sight of troops on US streets.

It's part of his plan to take over the US and rule for as long as he can, mostly to avoid jail.

If you can't see the figures, then you'll just have to believe the unbiased reports from one of Bannon's buddies.

Thanks, it's not just gone, it's eradicated.

They just can't get over the consequences of 'winning'. We're out of the EU now, we're no longer part of making the rules.

People have short attention spans now, if a subject fades from view they are on to the next subject.

Somewhere, out there, there is allegedly video evidence, probably the only thing keeping Maxwell alive, since, if she's as smart as reported, it'll get released if she dies.

Well, life will cease sometime prior to that, as the sun begins to heat up and bakes the planet until it resembles mercury, but yes, it'll be clear of any and all life by the time the sun expands as a red giant at the end of it's life, in a few billion years. But humanity will be long gone by then.

'Two weeks', the cry of the lesser spotted Trumplican...