A short reflection on the Government’s proposed under-16 social media ban, arguing that online harm to children is real, but that protection must not become the route by which family responsibility is replaced by state control and digital identity.
A reflection on Brexit, sovereignty, and the failure to turn self-government into national renewal. The article argues that leaving the European Union only matters if sovereignty is used responsibly: to rebuild food security, water, energy, housing, industry, education, environmental protection, and public welfare. It also warns that sovereignty can become dangerous if power simply passes from Brussels to Westminster, Whitehall, surveillance systems, and digital identity schemes.
Labour’s local-election defeat was not merely a bad set of results. It exposed a deeper loss of trust: over taxation, pensions, welfare, policing, immigration, digital ID, Gaza, and the everyday condition of Britain’s towns and cities. The phrase “mistakes were made” is no longer enough. Voters want to know who made them, why they were made, and whether the party has understood the scale of its estrangement from the country.
Revelation’s “mark of the beast” warned of a future where no one could buy or sell without state approval. Orwell imagined the same logic in 1984. Today, proposals for digital ID cards echo both warnings. With National Insurance numbers already in place, the issue is not whether we are numbered, but how far that numbering can be used for control. From the Farage banking scandal to Starmer’s push for digital IDs, Britain faces a choice between efficiency and liberty.