You’d be forgiven for thinking 2025 Britain was written by Orwell, directed by Kafka and stage-managed by a committee of unelected EU interns.
Once the land of Magna Carta, now the land of mandatory ID to watch porn.
And don’t laugh – this isn’t some fringe nanny-state nonsense. This is your country, your freedom, slipping into a digital straitjacket while our leaders smile for the cameras and mutter something about “protecting the vulnerable.”
Let’s not sugar-coat it: Britain is turning authoritarian. Quietly. Creepily. Inch by inch. And no one in power seems to mind – because it’s not happening to them. It’s happening to you. To me. To the kid at school labelled a hate criminal for calling someone a “poohead” on the playground.
No, seriously. That’s where this started.
From playground joshing to porn passes
At the start of the year, police were investigating so-called non-crime hate incidents in schools and neighbourhoods. What does that even mean?
A “non-crime” that’s still… recorded like a crime? It’s a joke – if the punchline wasn’t a permanent black mark on a kid’s record for saying the wrong thing, at the wrong time, in front of the wrong hyper-offended adult.
This is “doublethink” and “doublespeak,” as depicted in Orwell’s dystopian classic 1984. And this now is our reality, not a fictional tome.
Now, months later, the next phase of the crackdown is here. Want to watch porn? That’s not just your business anymore – it’s the government’s.
Now you need to upload your ID to some third-party website, possibly based in Russia, funded by anonymous venture capitalists and overseen by who knows who. Just to see a pair of boobs, or a cock, whatever your thing is. And it’s not like I’m a porn advocate. The opposite is true. Online porn is rotting the brains and souls of so many people. But this isn’t a morality lecture. This is about personal freedoms, and the presumption that the state isn’t watching your every move.
It’s about state control
Forget whether you think porn is good or bad. That’s not the point. The point is: where does it end? Are we going to need a passport to buy condoms? A licence to flirt?
And while we’re at it – why does the state trust you to vote, drive a car, or raise children… but not to be alone with your own urges?
It’s not about porn. It’s about control.
Criminalising feeling
While you’re scanning your driver’s licence into some faceless database, over at HQ the police are busy creating new units – not to investigate burglaries (clear-up rate: still embarrassing), not to chase down knife crime (London’s epidemic of doom), and certainly not to stop the endless stream of illegal migrants arriving without paperwork, vetting, or even a coherent backstory.
No. The newest branch of UK policing is monitoring how you feel.
You read that right.
A new unit has been tasked with watching social media to see who might be getting angry, upset or “radicalised” by – wait for it – people breaking the actual law by entering the country illegally.
Let me get this straight. If I cross a legal border without documentation, that’s fine. But if I express discomfort about it online – I’m the one the police start watching?
The inversion is so bizarre it would be funny – if it wasn’t happening in real time.
The tyranny of tone
This new era of British authoritarianism isn’t jackboots and loudspeakers. It’s algorithms and vibes.
You won’t get locked up for what you do – you’ll get flagged, monitored, nudged or “de-platformed” for what you feel.
Say the wrong thing and your payment processor might drop you. Share the wrong meme and your employer could call you in for a “values alignment” chat. Get angry about immigration, or drag queens in schools, or the price of butter and someone, somewhere, will think you’re a threat to the narrative.
This isn’t safety. This isn’t decency. This is digital feudalism – where the peasants must show their loyalty to the new barons of tech, woke government and soft-censorship media.
It’s not just me saying this. Look at the trends. Look at the polls. People know something’s off. They feel the tension. They whisper in pubs what they can’t say on Facebook. They tiptoe around the truth for fear of landing on a list.
We are being managed, not governed
The biggest lie we’re being fed is that it’s all for our own good. Public health. Safety. Tolerance. All noble aims – until they become weapons.
Ask yourself this: when was the last time a new law, policy or system increased your freedom rather than restricted it?
Everything’s tighter. More watched. More judged. We don’t have government anymore. We have management. Not elected representatives, but glorified HR officers who believe the biggest threat to society is an opinion with sharp elbows.
Meanwhile, the real issues – crime, housing, national security, crumbling infrastructure – go untouched, because solving them requires effort. It’s far easier to install another surveillance unit than actually tackle the rot.
Time to wake up
Britain needs to snap out of this weirdness. Stop confusing comfort for freedom. Stop mistaking silence for progress. Stop acting like giving up a little liberty is no big deal.
It is a big deal.
We are being nudged, policed, and boxed into a digital society where compliance is the default and dissent is dangerous. This isn’t a drill. This is how liberty dies – with paperwork, not pitchforks.
So next time you’re asked to upload your ID just to be an adult, or told to mind your tone in case the feelings police are listening – remember: you’re not the crazy one.
You’re just awake.
