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Thank You for an Incredible 2025 – Let’s Junk This Dystopian Nightmare in 2026!

As we close out 2025, the No to Digital ID campaign wants to extend our deepest thanks to every single one of you.

Launched right here on this blog just months ago, your contributions, retweets, shares, and invaluable insights have powered everything we’ve achieved this year. Without your unwavering support, we wouldn’t be where we are today – stronger, louder, and closer than ever to victory.

Our Key Achievements This Year

Thanks to you and thousands like you, we’ve hit remarkable milestones in our fight against Digital ID:

  • 40,000 followers on X (@NoToDigitalID)
  • 100,000 leaflets delivered across the country
  • Endorsements from leaders of UK parties (except Labour!) and several US Senators

We’ve interviewed Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, and Robert Jenrick. Jeremy Corbyn and Diane Abbott have publicly backed us. Even US Senators are now quoting our campaign in Congress.

We’ve put up billboards across London and Edinburgh and reached towns the Westminster bubble forgot.

We are the only truly non-partisan campaign in Britain right now — and with your help, we are winning.

The government may try one final push, but together we have the momentum to stop Digital ID once and for all in 2026.

Let’s Finish the Job in the New Year

We now have a genuine chance to kill this dystopian nightmare for good — your continued support makes all the difference.

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I’ve spent the last 18 years writing frankly, freely and without apology — a practice that’s becoming rarer in Britain. As far back as 2016 more than 3,300 people were detained or questioned over online posts, and recent coverage shows thousands more arrests under the Communications Act and Malicious Communications Act. Thoughtcrime is no longer fiction; it’s becoming policy. Even very recently, Lucy Connolly was sentenced after a post calling for mass deportations — her case has become a flashpoint in the debate over where free speech ends and criminality begins. (Courts and Tribunals Judiciary, The Guardian)

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It’s more than a bit weird

Fiscal rules are works of fiction designed to constrain government activity to appease neoliberal interests within the financial services sector, and are part of the politics of destruction deliberately engineered to create the economics of failure that we are now witnessing all around us.

MMT has a fiscal rule. Print and spend until inflation, then raise taxes – or, aha, aha reduce spending – to eliminate the inflation. That’s a fiscal rule.

So why does the MMT advocate insist that fiscal rules are a work of fiction?

Brace yourselves, Shielas

Research published in the World Journal of Men’s Health found evidence that drugs such as Viagra and Cialis may also help with heart disease, stroke risk and diabetes, as well as enlarged prostate and urinary problems.

Presumably we’re about to get to where one or t’other is handed out like statins.

Which will be fun, no?

Another answer!

Given the toxicity of social media, a moral question now faces all of us: is it still ethical to use it?
Frances Ryan

With so many platforms rife with racism, misogyny and far-right rhetoric, there must be a point where decent people walk away

As social media is no longer policed by the left – people can just say whatever they want! – therefore no one should use social media. See?

Ho, Yus! An Answer!

Until this week’s latest dump of the Epstein files by Trump’s justice department, I hadn’t seen the connection between the two. But now it’s as clear as day. The abolition of gender studies is a way of further guaranteeing impunity to the elite men whose contempt for and exploitation of women and girls apparently knew no bounds, whether they actually slept with the women on offer or simply shared Epstein’s fantasies in order to gain influence or funding.

Teaching gender studies in college will save non-college girls from givig blowjobs for a living.

That’s one of those arguments dreamed up while firmly kegeling a tampon, isn’t it?

Being oppressed by technology

What I want seems to me to be one of those simple things. I am clearly simpler than that thing.

What I want is to get one of the Epstein emails into an Open Office file. Now, yes, that’s simple enough that even I can do that.

But what I want is to get it in the format of the Epstein emails. And that I cannot do. I want the fonts, the font sizes, the way it’s laid out, in my Open Office file. For, what I want to write is a few spoofs of such emails. From: Vo**@***********************ir.su apologising for proffering a bird who gave someone the clap. Say, and as an example. Hey, the amusements of your host, eh?

If I have just the one file of that layout then I’m sure that I can use it, save under a different file name and use the layout again. Further, cut and paste should allow me to extend the conversation if that’s what I desire to do at any time.

But. Here’s a .pdf of one such file.

Or: https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01740165.pdf

Which, in .pdf, looks like this:

That’s what I want my Open Office file to look like. But when I cut and paste from the .pdf file to Open Office I get this:

Which isn’t what I want at all. So, how do I get what I want? How do I get a template file, which I can then adjust as to text, that looks like the Epstein emails?

As you all know, I’m so inept that I don’t even know whether this is possible, let alone simple. But how do I get there? If I do?

The Owen Jones Solution

If Labour had sense, it would understand that a broken economic model is the root of Britain’s malaise. It would adopt a programme of progressive taxation to fund investment in broken services and struggling communities.

Owen believes that Britain does not have a progressive taxation system. Silly, ignorant, Owen.

Moira is surprised

The 3.5m documents that have thus far been released to the public – out of a reported 6m documents pertaining to Epstein in the US justice department’s possession – paint Epstein as someone for whom elites, and particularly elite men, often felt a sense of camaraderie and affection, maintaining intimate and friendly relationships long after his 2008 conviction on child sexual abuse charges. And their content implies that, in some cases, this was not simply a case of them turning a blind eye to their friend’s sexual crimes: the powerful actively approached Epstein for sexual and romantic advice, and saw him as a thrower of “wild” parties and a listening ear in whom they could confide their anxieties about the excesses of the #MeToo movement.

Men have a thing for fertile female flesh. News at 11.

Moira, of course, disapproves. But there we are.

Nonsense, Love

All that being said, the pressure on women is unlike that on men, for reasons that stretch into the thousands before you even get to “which one of them has to give birth?”. The age of 29 was presumably chosen symbolically, to flag that 30 is just around the corner, and that’s when you’re supposed to worry about your fertility. It’s an exceedingly cautious cut-off point, and a heavily gendered one, by which I mean, when did you last hear anyone say, “tick tock, tick tock” to a man on the occasion of his 30th birthday?

That is not gendered, that is sexed. It is also a simple statement of fact. The fertility of the male sex is not time limited in the same sense that the fertility of the female sex is. Just one of those things about our species.

And this is nonsense:

In other words, don’t buy it, French 29-year-olds: you’re being used as pawns in the creation of a Great Replacement narrative. That’s the worst reason ever to start a family.

Very democratic, eh?

What should they do? I suggest this agenda:

1) Form a national government, or at the very least, a loose coalition of the willing to keep the far right out. It is not clear that it needs a Labour leader, but if it did, Ed Miliband is the person to do it.

2) Do electoral and parliamentary reform to prevent Reform from taking power.

Democracy means changing the system of the bastard peoples vote for anyone I don’t like.

To think that he calls us fascists…..

Rightie Ho then

First, he does not believe in the government’s real role. He has never articulated a positive case for what government is for. That is because he has never wanted to govern in any meaningful sense. Politics has been about personal advancement, not public purpose. As such, he typifies the modern political apparatchik. He is not the exception right now: he is the norm.

Given that the system is just these gurning placeholders that logically means we reduce their power over us, right?

No, no, look over there!

We’re often told the PM is a ‘decent’ man. But in appointing Peter Mandelson he chose political convenience over doing right by trafficked women and girls

It’s very important that we talk about Epstein’s handful of willing – if underage – tarts and not about the thousands here at home. No, really.

Bitch doesn’t even mention the comparison. Fuck off, eh?

Hey, Zach!

In this video, I set out the opportunity facing the Greens, the risks they must avoid, and the hard truth that values alone are not enough. If plausible, deliverable, policy does not follow, and fast, the consequences will be severe.

Spud’s got your entire programme right here! Just enact that and……or hsa someone got to you already, tipped you off about the errors?

Bugger off, tossers

The Benin Bronzes were made from the manillas used in payment for slaves. They therefore should be part of the reparations by Nigeria for those sold into slavery.

We should give them all to Dianne Abbot.

Ghislaine and the money

But, you see, $10 million isn’t that much money

Once you’ve a London town house and a NYC one then there’s not a huge amount left of $10 million. Certainly not all that much to finance the usual lifestyle desired etc.

Yes, yes, I know, and yet at that level that is true.

Now this, this is a strong woman

Events came to a head on the night of November 29 1983 when a mob of 4,000 pickets set fire to buildings and repeatedly rammed the gates of the plant. Shah, trapped inside, feared for his life – and was eventually rescued by robust police action of the kind that would become familiar during the miners’ strike a year later.

Meanwhile, his house was fire-bombed several times and a set of five coffins was delivered, the smaller ones evidently a threat aimed at his three children. When his wife Jennifer (who was suffering from cancer) rang to tell Shah this news, he said: “Maybe it’s time to give up,” to which she replied: “If you do, I’m leaving you.”

I don’t think this is right

The US National Security Strategy published by the White House in November called for strengthening the growing influence of “patriotic” European parties such as Reform UK, Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National (RN), Fidesz in Hungary and Vox in Spain. As with the communist movements of the cold war, these nationalist, populist and in some cases far-right parties are best understood not as isolated national phenomena but as expressions of a shared intellectual project – a movement that is, to varying degrees, now being reinforced by a foreign power.

The movement that is – it’s not an intellectual one. There are people who try to intellectualise it, create a ssystem of thought for it and I’m sometimes one of them. But it’s not an intellectual project.

It’s far more a Great National Upchuck. This isn’t working. What “this” is can be argued – the lanyard class, say. But this, the current base political settlement. It’s just not right, see? There’s not much guidance of it let alone intellectual cohesion. It’s far far more just we don’t like our current rulers and their rules. And this is at a deeper level than which party is in government, it’s the whole system.

Now, obviously, that’s my idea about it which can of course be wrong. But there really isn’t any intellectual pathway being followed here, not that I can see. There’s a very strong incoherence against perhaps, but other than that I cannot even see the one single unifying idea.

Seems a bit performative

Police are searching two properties connected to Peter Mandelson as part of an investigation into claims that he passed market-sensitive information to Jeffrey Epstein.

A Metropolitan police statement, which did not name Mandelson, said searches were taking place in Camden, north London, and Wiltshire. Mandelson has been living in a rented property in Wiltshire since being sacked as ambassador to the US over his links to the late convicted child sex offender.

Whatever didn’t happen didn’t happen at lesat a decade ago.

What physical evidence is anyone thinking of?

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