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Is the UK’s digital ID a passport to totalitarianism?

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Laura Dodsworth
Sep 26, 2025
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A still from the BBC’s 1965 “1984”.

‘If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever,’ said O’Brien, the grand inquisitor of the totalitarian regime in Orwell’s…

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