Censorship & Control: The UK’s Digital ID Agenda - Alan Miller | Ep. 101

My guest today is Alan Miller, co-founder of the Together Association, a nationwide civil-liberties movement ensuring the public—not technocrats—remain at the heart of politics. Alan’s career spans four decades of creative and civic entrepreneurship: from pioneering acid-house parties and co-creating London’s cultural hub The Old Truman Brewery, to co-founding the Night-Time Industries Association and leading the #OpenForAll campaign during lockdowns. In this conversation, we discuss UK’s policy on free speech, protest rights, Digital ID, Net Zero, Low-Traffic Neighbourhoods, and more. We examine how COVID-era controls became a template for centralization, why free speech and privacy form the core of democratic accountability, and how technology can either entrench surveillance or empower autonomy through open protocols like Nostr and Bitcoin. Alan makes the case for an active citizenry, analog-digital parity of rights, and a future where liberty is defended not by elites, but by the public itself.

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-- CHAPTERS –

00:00 - Coming Up
01:38 - Alan Miller's Background
03:11 - The Impact of COVID-19 on Social Life
05:40 - Vaccine Passports The History of ID’s
12:09 - Ad Break: Trezor & BitVault
13:31 - UK: Current Status & Digital ID Concerns
19:30 - Global Technocratic Influences
22:15 - Ad Break: Abundant Mines & Expat Money
24:27 - The Risks of Digital ID & Centralized Systems
35:00 - Public Resistance
37:40 - Freedom Tech Innovations: Nostr & Bitcoin
44:00 - 12K Arrests in UK for “Non-Crime Hate Incidents”
55:00 - Actions You Can Take & Upcoming Events
1:04:00 - Finding Hope in Collective Action