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Convenient or intrusive? How Poland has embraced digital ID cards
Poland’s economy potentially overtaking Britain by 2030
, but in some areas Poles are already ahead.They can produce a digital identity card or driving licence and use an array of public services using a mobile app, mObywatel. When accessing it for the …
Technology for lab-grown eggs or sperm on brink of viability, UK fertility watchdog finds
Mass-producing eggs and sperm in a laboratory in order to have a baby with yourself or three other people in a “multiplex” parenting arrangement might sound like the plot of a dystopian novel.
But these startling scenarios are under consideration by the UK’s fertility watchdog, which has concluded that the …
Gov.uk app could lead to ‘mandatory ID scheme’, claim privacy groups
A new app to hold citizens’ driving licences, passports and benefits documents risks being used as a “launchpad for a mandatory ID scheme”, privacy campaigners have claimed.
Peter Kyle, the technology secretary, last week unveiled plans for a gov.uk app and gov.uk wallet, intended to save time and hassle for …
How the roots of the ‘PayPal mafia’ extend to apartheid South Africa
When Elon Musk’s arm shot out in a stiff arm salute at Donald Trump’s inaugural celebrations, startled viewers mostly drew the obvious comparison.
But in the fired-up debate about Musk’s intent that followed, as the world’s richest man insisted he wasn’t trying to be a Nazi, speculation inevitably focused on …
Stop wealthy seat-holders’ big profits from reselling at Royal Albert Hall, peer says
A potential conflict of interest in the way the Royal Albert Hall is governed will allow wealthy individuals and companies to increase their opportunities to make big profits from seats they own at the charitable venue, according to a member of the House of Lords.
Peers are expected to vote …
Third of young adults in UK ‘unable to name Auschwitz or any Nazi death camps’
A third of young adults in the UK are unable to name Auschwitz or any of the other concentration camps and ghettoes where the crimes of the Holocaust were committed, according to a study.
Other growing gaps in knowledge – especially among those aged 18-29 – were also identified, as …
The anti-abortion movement weighs its next move: ‘We haven’t gone away’
Minutes into the National Pro-Life Summit, Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of America, had convinced its more than attendees to leap to their feet. She was recording a video, and she had a message she wanted them to send to Donald Trump.
“THANK YOU MISTER PRESIDENT!” the crowd …
Elizabeth Cameron Dalman at 91: ‘In dance we are ageless’
At 91, Elizabeth Cameron Dalman dances in nature at her bushland retreat outside Canberra, Mirramu Creative Arts Centre, surrounded by writers, singers and visual artists stoking their respective muses. “So many people bring up this age thing,” she says, “and my reply is that in dance we are ageless.”
A …
Scrap automatic right of bishops to sit in Lords, says Harriet Harman
Church of England bishops who sit in the House of Lords by right should be removed as part of the government’s changes to the second chamber, according to the veteran legislator Harriet Harman.
Harman, who was a Labour MP for more than 40 years until 2024, has put forward an …
Inside the 100-year fight to get a Black revolutionary pardoned
In the days before President Joe Biden’s final moments in office, Justin Hansford, a Howard University law professor, received a call from a White House staffer. They told Hansford that Marcus Garvey, the revolutionary Jamaican leader who pushed for the unity of Black people and a collective return to Africa, …