Worth saying again one of the Tories big mistakes has been misunderstanding the ideological preferences of their 2019 coalition. 71% of Tory 2019 voters back a phased smoking ban.

Jacob Rees Mogg is wrong: Britons do want ID cards - ⁦Martha Gill⁩’s right, Brits are more authoritarian than they think they are. And they don’t think through the consequences of ID cards in practice… particularly for minorities… theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

YouGov poll from 2023

Great piece by Martha Gill - I have long found it puzzling that Consetvative MPs who routinely overestimate how right wing voters are on many social issues, and who are pretty authoritarian on the whole, have this weirdly persistent false belief that the public oppose ID cards.

Destruction of a precious ancient bluebell woodland in the Kent countryside under a deluge of illegal landfill waste shows the utter failure of environmental law, complete inaction by the authorities & increasing lawlessness in the UK. Let me tell you the story of Hoads Wood 🧵

In Obs Martha Gill takes apart J Rees Mogg on ID cards. I lived, worked in Switzerland, France for 15 years. No-one ever asked for ID. But Swiss say they can't manage immigration without knowing who's in country. My argument in Times Tuesday open.substack.com/pub/denismacsh…

Brits will be hugely keen on compulsory ID cards until the precise moment that a sympathetic person is punished for not carrying one, at which point support will collapse. If a government wants to waste money, time and political capital testing this hunch, let's go.

Sadly, true. This podcast ep is also worth listening to: functionalbreeding.org/danika-bannasc…

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Cute, cuddly, and often crippled: look where the love of dogs has taken the British | Martha Gill theguardian.com/commentisfree/…