Legislation

digital ID cards

Request: UK Labour government have announced a plan today to roll out 'compulsory digital ID cards' before the end of this parliament (2029) reasoning it will prevent illegal workers. Seems like a first step towards a China like social credit score to me.

Online safety act - UK

"As of 25 July 2025, platforms... are now required to use highly effective age assurance to prevent children from accessing pornography, or content which encourages self-harm, suicide or eating disorder content."

Blackstone's ratio

"It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer." The phrase was absorbed by the British legal system, becoming a maxim by the early 19th century -- wikipedia. By request.

One Big Beautiful Bill Act

119th Congress (2025-2026) legislation, H.R.1, passed the Senate but has stalled in the House of Representatives.

Real ID Act of 2005

By request. "Establishes requirements that driver licenses and identification cards issued by U.S. states and territories must satisfy to be accepted for accessing federal government facilities, nuclear power plants, and for boarding airline flights in the United States" -- wikipedia.

Article 1(1) of Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany:

"Human dignity shall be inviolable. To respect and protect it shall be the duty of all state authority."

legalized assisted dying

"British MPs passed a bill that would legalise assisted dying for terminally ill people in England and Wales. After a heated debate, 330 MPs voted in favour of the reform and 275 voted against it" -- The Economist.

marijuana legalization effect

Cost-benefit analysis.

lethal injection (justice system)

Request: a comprehensive action greater than 200 in intention?

tariffs

"a tax imposed by the government of a country or by a supranational union on imports or exports of goods" -- wikipedia.

deterrents to crime with integrity

Ten methods calibrated specifically for effectiveness in arresting the potentiality of a crime being committed.

caning in Singapore

Request: Singapore used to be the highest calibrating country on Earth. Perhaps it sounds bad, but is it effective as a deterrent from crime?

criminality

illegal activities or behaviour -- dictionary.cambridge.org.

capital punishment

state-sanctioned practice of killing a person as a punishment for a crime, usually following an authorised, rule-governed process to conclude that the person is responsible for violating norms that warrant said punishment -- wikipedia. Priority request.

UN General Assembly Resolution ES-10/21 (adopted)

Regarding: "Illegal Israeli actions in Occupied East Jerusalem and the rest of the Occupied Palestinian Territory." Notably, Norway and France voted in favor, while the US and Israel, predictably, voted against it.