Do you consider it authoritarian and idiotic in every country that currently has national IDs or does that just apply to what the UK government proposed?

Hard to do in practice. Eg in the UK the warp view of WWII has led to Poppy Nazis and was a significant driver in the Brexit vote

Are you saying that Scooter Malvane is Andy's alter ego?

The farm workers also call them the "Maak-klaar-daar" as they tend to fly over at clocking out time with the call of "maak, maak klaar-daar"

Asian elephants in Africa

Nothing lasts forever, but how do people think it will dissolve in 20 years? What possible events could make it happen on that timescale?