Thought police

To enter the UK, Belgian citizens have to apply for an Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA). Beyond the administrative burden, beyond the fact that the website for the authorisation did not work at the start, beyond the fact that you can not pay it in GBP — yes, you read correctly, you cannot pay a UK official document with the official currency of the country and have to face “ currency conversion fees ”—, then you have to pass under the “Thought Police” yoke. This includes mandatory questions about your opinions and what others may “suspect” your opinions are. I thought that the base of law was that we are presumed innocent until proven guilty and have the right of a fair trial. Now we can be guilty without being actually accused of anything, simply “suspected”, without even being aware that someone has that suspicion and what the actual crime would be. I thought that there was general freedom of opinion and speech. Now it seems we can be guilty of “expressing views”. I...