Just seen this: 'Adults can still access social media through age checks like facial recognition, digital IDs, passports and credit cards.' So it's not just a ban for kids, it's ID-gating half of the internet.

Or you could have read this in the @spectator months ago

I hope they understand medicine better than economics. I’m sceptical.

“Michelle Obama is a man” shouted on the White House lawn in a ring sponsored by Bud Light only available on Larry Ellison’s Paramount Plus. What a way to celebrate America 250 and the twilight of liberal democracy.

Nice

I would probably not have chosen the suffragettes for this particular example.

Between the breakfast clubs and the social media ban, I think this nation might have just turned the corner.

Just a truly unbelievable return on investment here. For £13k, British Government (with AISI and NCSC) used frontier AI to scan public code repositories across govt. 407 findings in total, “including critical weaknesses exposing services to authentication bypass, data exposure and remote code execution.”

VPNs are going to be the new urgent scourge in record time aren’t they. From my cold dead hands.

The BBC have got seven people in the studio, most of whom are bereaved and all of whom support the ban. What are the chances?!

1/ In British history we've had the rump Parliament, the Addled Parliament, the long and the short Parliament and now in 2026 we have the student Parliament. It's a Parliament of pointless Early Day Motions and unamended assisted suicide legislation written by lobbyists.

Announcing this outside Parliament is a breach of the Ministerial Code as it's not in a critical emergency and Parliament is not in recess. I assume @CommonsSpeaker will haul Mr Rules's arse over the coals? And Mr Rules will resign as he demanded when Tories breached the Code?

‘We’ve still got the nukes! We’ve still got the nukes!”

"This is for Galipoli, you little punk!"

Why is Iran continuing to attack Israel through Hezbollah in Lebanon when they’re negotiating with Trump? Modern chess was codified in Persia. The regime are trying to put Israel in a fork, where single piece simultaneously attacks two or more of the opponent's pieces. Israel is going to be forced into a choice: split from Washington over Hezbollah in Lebanon, or accept the threat on their northern border. Only one option Israel can choose, but it will exponentially increase their international isolation.

Can we debunk this nonsense? Elon Musk was awarded (note: not given) cost-per-result contracts to perform a service for the US government. The total of those for SpaceX specifically is ~$22B, which includes repaid loans, state tax incentives, etc. The deal was simple: put stuff into LEO at or below a set cost. If SpaceX does it below the set cost, SpaceX keeps the difference. If it doesn’t, the company is responsible for the overrun. End result? SpaceX & Elon lowered the cost of getting 1 kg into LEO by 95-97% vs what NASA was paying previously. And for the record, every other company around at the time was offered the same opportunity to bid on the contract - Musk/SpaceX just took it. The handout narrative implies the taxpayer is the patron and SpaceX the dependent. The cost data shows the opposite: before SpaceX, NASA paid Russia’s Soyuz $80-86M per seat; SpaceX delivered at ~$55 million. SpaceX saved the US taxpayer $300M-$465M each year on that alone (the US sends 12-15 astronauts to space each year) On the lunar lander, NASA estimated SpaceX’s fixed-price bid saved $20B-$30B vs the Boeing-preferred cost-plus approach. So: SpaceX saved the US taxpayer more than the total value of contracts it earned on a single project, PLUS provided the US government with the requested services (put stuff in LEO) at the best possible price.

He’d have to sell $50 billion of stock, tanking the price, destroying wealth for millions of investors, workers and union pensioners, plus discouraging future investment in new companies and ideas. And your party would just waste & steal the money anyway, then come demanding more

Alex Soros is interesting because he’s a billionaire heir who dedicates his life to making cities less safe. He’s like a Reverse Batman.

The first all British F1 podium since 1968 🇬🇧

I cannot understand this argument.