Writing in Spiked, Tim Black reviews the falsehoods being peddled by Prime Minister Keir Starmer to rationalize the UK government’s latest campaign to impose digital identification throughout the country. Each previous such scheme, Black notes, was presented as solving the most pressing of the day – and proved a costly boondoggle. Starmer’s current pitch is that digital I.D. will cut down on illegal immigration, which is laughable given his government’s inaction on that topic.
Toppling a Communist Empire for $2.7 Million
Though widely thought of as focused on waterboarding terrorists or poisoning foreign potentates, it was by smuggling paper that the CIA achieved its most monumental triumph. R.M. Gerecht in a book review for The Washington Free Beacon charts how the late Cold War-era operation to flood Poland with Western books, magazines, printing supplies and audio recordings fatally weakened the country’s Communist dictatorship, setting the stage for the downfall of the entire Soviet empire. Total cost: US$2.7 million.