🚨 Breaking News 🚨 Andy Burnham vows to invade France and reclaim our ancestral lands. "The Duchy of Normandy, the Counties of Anjou, Maine, and Touraine, and the Duchy of Aquitaine belong to the Crown and I will bring them home!" He told me earlier today.

I think the government has no concept how easy these things are to circumvent.

Here is Labour's problem. McTernan doesn't mean justice, he means poking the corpse of the troubles. But only the British Army party of that corpse. The PIRA part will be excused. I still think we should lock up Gerry Adams until he tells us who set those bombs in Birmingham

Government by actual farts might be better at this point.

Government by brain-fart.

This is lie. There is no genocide happening in Gaza.

Strong agree.

Breaking into a building causing £1m of damage and fracturing à police officer’s spine with a sledge hammer isn’t “protesting” its serious criminality.

I have many more issues with Ilhan Omar being worth $30 million than Elon being worth a trillion.

And to get adults to verify their identity. Easier for them to police free speech.

Told my 14 year old daughter about this. She just laughed and said “yeah good luck with that” and then asked for a screenshot so her friends could laugh at it too.

I think there really is an issue with social media - indeed with the web itself. Partly because children are growing up with a fast changing media environment that their parents are also learning. The challenge isn't met with bans - the primary duty rests with parents - but with harm reduction strategies. Also, in the same way we socialised kids going to bed at seven or eight pm, we need to develop social tools - supported by good safety advice - that allow parents to control their children's use of the web. What's clear is that growing up in the years since the mid 2000s has been a bit of a wild west. Parents didn't appreciate how troubling some of the content out there had become - the job now is to give parents the tools and information necessary to allow them some degree of peace of mind. I'm not sure simple bans and curfews - each requiring adults to ID themselves before using sites - are the solution. Not just because de facto forcing adults into a digital ID is wrong but because this doesn't mean children can't and won't breach the walls you build. Finally smoking kills something like 70,000 people in Britain every year. There are a handful of tragic cases related to social media and some contested evidence about harm to mental health (although lockdown did vastly more damage to children's mental health than social media can even imagine). Calling social media "as bad as smoking" is simply another moral panic, a piece of ghastly nannying fussbucketry designed to scare people rather than help people. Anyone making this claim is a reprehensible shyster.

One MP says of the potential ban on social media for under 18s past 8.30pm: "Are we giving votes to 16 year olds but banning them from watching the election results on YouTube?"

Good to read what the Surrender Party has to say. Right now, at least in Europe, McTernan's outlook is the dominant position on defence. Essentially that we shouldn't see it as the first priority of the state but as a luxury affordable only when we've paid out entitlements

1/5 An open letter to @TheLancet from an Iranian-Jewish cardiologist. Today, one of the world's most prestigious medical journals published a campaign to suspend the Israeli Medical Association from the World Medical Association — the body founded after WWII to ensure physicians would never again be weaponized by political ideology. I'm a cardiologist. I'm an Iranian Jew who grew up under a regime where medicine was subjugated to the state. What The Lancet just did is a disgrace to my profession. Here's what they published — and what they deliberately left out.

Same park in Tel Aviv: On the left- Israeli Arabs marking Eid al Adha- last month. On the right- Tel Aviv gay parade, yesterday. Anyone wants to tell me that Israel is an apartheid state?! ( photo credit- Haaretz, TLV municipality)

Let’s be honest, if there’s a social media platform that underage kids need protecting from, it’s Bluesky

I suspect there are a sizeable minority of Labour MPs who share Carns' view. But I don't see any way to square the circle with the majority of MPs and activists who are fully bought into the Miliband thesis on energy transition.