“The true inner self must be drawn up like a jewel from the bottom of the sea, rescued from confusion, from indistinction, from immersion in the common, the nondescript, the trivial, the sordid, the evanescent.” - Thomas Merton (1915-1968), Seeds of Contemplation [Image: Deep Inside oil painting on canvas by Romanian visual artist Dorina Costras.]

Credit: Truth Theory (Facebook) "The UK government has dropped plans to make a digital ID mandatory, especially for proving the right to work, after criticism and public concern. However, this does not mean digital ID has been cancelled altogether — the system is still planned as a voluntary option, to be used alongside traditional documents like passports. So it’s a rollback of compulsory use, not a complete abandonment of digital ID."