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The OSA Is an Invasion of Privacy: What the Online Safety Act Really Means for Ordinary People

The UK’s Online Safety Act is far more intrusive than most people realise. It treats private cloud backups as if they were public social media posts and paves the way for client-side scanning — technology that inspects your personal files on your own devices before they’re encrypted. This is a fundamental shift in how the state views privacy, and it demands public scrutiny.

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Imaginary UK Government (Patriots’ Edition)

A tongue-in-cheek “Patriots’ Cabinet” and 100-day plan: borders made credible, energy made affordable, NHS backlogs blitzed, planning and red tape reset, and free-speech protected. It’s a thought experiment and a provocation—what might a delivery-first government look like if we stopped playing to the SW1 gallery? Plus quick résumés for each minister and a punchy scorecard so readers can judge the results.

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Blame the Tories? The Deeper Roots of Britain’s Decline

Much of what’s wrong in Britain today didn’t begin in 2010. From mass immigration without infrastructure to the ideological overreach of the Equality Act, this post explores the long-term roots of national decline — many of which lie in New Labour’s legacy, not just 14 years of Conservative rule.