If you think it won’t take the teenagers about 3.5 seconds to get round this ban you severely underestimate them.

Pleased to see a growing consensus ( at last) that the white voice has been denied a place in broadcast and political debate. Lord Grade, newly retired Ofcom chairman, says in a Guardian interview those hostile to GB News want to restrict free speech to the Islington crowd. That mob include Lefty media buyers (fortunately being replaced by AI) who to stop the station being successful would rather place ads on C4 shows where the dicks are as big as they are.

Not saying social media ban is being rushed out as part of a 'save Starmer' initiative but officials can't say how all-important age verification will work, or what they'll do about the use of VPNs to bypass checks. A pilot study of proposed curfews hasn't even been assessed yet

You’re going to see a lot in your X timeline about how the social media ban is unworkable and illiberal - and it will be one the most obvious examples of how social media skews debate. But it will be one of the most popular things the government is doing theguardian.com/uk-news/2026…

Kemi Badenoch trumpets that “modern Britain is the least racist country on earth”. She warns that the principle of something being racist “because it is perceived to be” by the victim or anyone else is wrong and has led to perverse consequences in public institutions

'People are fed up with DEI to the extent that it's actually made them quite racist' On today's Daily T, @CamillaTominey and @timothy_stanley discuss the political events of the past decade- specifically the death of George Floyd and the push for diversity and inclusion, and the impact this has had on our policing system 👇 Let us know your thoughts below 🎧 Listen to the full episode now through the link in our bio

ECB Statement: Ben Stokes and Gus Atkinson

I make no apologies for doing the right thing to protect children from paedophiles. This is about stopping the coercion and sextortion of children, not surveilling or policing people’s phones. This technology is already on devices. The tech firms just need to switch it on to block children from seeing nude imagery. There is no reporting, no data collection, no monitoring, and no images leaving the device. All adults will be able to switch off the protections if they are over 18. This is targeted, proportionate and - most importantly - it protects children from vile abusers.

There is no need for coordination. The story is all over the US media and being properly discussed rather than shut down.

I keep hearing the left say that Robert Kenyon is ‘just a plumber’ and therefore he is not suitable to be a politician. But the same people think this plumber would make the perfect politician… right?