And it surprises me still (although it really shouldn't) how much my personal information has been shared between 'agencies'.
My vaccination status (and all medical records), mobile phone number, shopping algorithms from my bank card transactions, the car I drive, the friends and work colleagues.
All spread(or more likely, sold) between supermarkets, police, NHS, banks, DHSS
And i didn't even register on that complete sham of Covid movement-tracker or database.

"The facts have changed", Rishi Sunak

There's a surprise. All hands to the pump when the holes on the starboard side of the ship start to sink it!

Why on earth do you think I feel a "victim"? Let me reassure you I don't. My concern is not in any way about me. It's about opinions being posted as facts. It's about the circulation of misinformation. It's about exposing the tactics employed to try to avoid accepting these things have been exposed.

It has nothing to do with holding different opinions on the media response to the early days of the pandemic. People who hold your type of attitude are always going to be suspicious of the media and see devious motivations in play. People like me will disagree and suggest that caution and support for the official position is both to be expected and is wise.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

Give him a chance to ask me a serious question and this is what we get. This is very WE, you can't really take it as anything genuine.

To answer the joke question he does actually provide.

I occasionally mock you because your opinions and statements occasionally amuse me. Really there isn't much more to it than that. What I find amusing in life is hardly restricted to you.

I've sometimes found you describe comments as insults that are quite a stretch for a political forum. Yeah, it's been known that I'm no angel, but I'm also not the villain you portray.

As for being superior, surely you are projecting here. I am what I am, there are certainly smarter than me and personally while IQ is very important to society's success I've never regarded it as the most important quality in a person....that quality is loyalty.

If there was nothing funny or true about what I say then it wouldn't bother you. You continually say you don't care yet also continually play the victim when anyone responds to your deliberately provocative commentary...You rarely look to compromise or be anything other than combative....that's fine but it doesn't fit well with such a thin skin.....some might say, if you don't like the heat, what are you doing in the kitchen lad?

I also find it somewhat of a double standard to complain when you're regarded critically when you yourself are quite happy to be critical.

I am no threat to you other than my observations, so perhaps you should try to grow some balls rather than continually looking to display them at beaches.

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'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

That article pointed nothing out. It expressed some strange theories and opinions. Which it is perfectly entitled to express but whether you take them seriously is another matter. I found them extremely weird.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

I think you are worrying unnecessarily. Have you heard of the GDPR? It regulates what and how information is shared.

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Law-abiding citizens have nothing to fear from information sharing and much to gain, from reductions in bureaucracy, increased efficiency, safeguarding of children and the vulnerable, crime reduction and detection etc etc.

Just so long as the information is only used for purposes which are in our interests all is fine. That's what the GDPR is intended to ensure.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

Partially true and tempered by your last paragraph but incredibly naive for anyone to think that all information has been used for good and proper purposes.

It also doesn’t always benefit you, for instance I had an incorrect marker against my credit history for something that was nothing to do with me. You cannot believe the amount of aggravation that caused and the difficulty I had getting it removed. This sort of thing happens all the time and it is the, “computer is never wrong” attitude that is to blame and difficult to redress.