David Scullion

A month ago I turned off my smartphone and put it in a drawer, hopefully never to see it again. It would be a new beginning for me. I would escape the pull of the pixels, read more books and have spontaneous conversations with passers-by in the park. I would become happier, the summer would never end, and the late Queen would recover from what turned out to just be quite a bad cold. Sadly, it didn’t quite go to plan.

Why bank cards shouldn’t be used as ID for elections Whilst I am going to attempt it, I must admit it’s hard to criticise the government’s changes to voter ID when you consider the system we had before. When Boris Johnson’s government passed the Elections Act 2022, a much-needed measure which required Photo ID to vote in elections, the Guardian letters page lit up. Professor Toby S James from the left-wing University of East Anglia railed at the “extreme photo ID requirements”.

Is the modern state of Israel the same as the biblical one? British watchers of the Ted Cruz interview with Tucker Carlson may have been surprised to learn that the Bible endorses support for the political leadership of Benjamin Netanyahu.