Matthew Gotham
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Christian, husband, and father of 3.
@ErnstInn73727 Compare Sweden to Norway.
Nigel Farage's Substack is a remarkable example of how far things have come. Even two years ago, reading these words from the pen of a future Prime Minister would have been unimaginable. It's also an interesting development in itself, with Starmer having already started releasing regular essays (admittedly with far less depth than Farage's). An expectation that political leaders engage in long form writing would certainly be a positive development, and a useful filter against Burnham-esque empty messaging. Not suggesting that's an imminent or inevitable thing - of course, it's unlikely either Starmer or Farage have written any of these essays themselves - but it isn't impossible to imagine it developing this way. Frankly, a weekly 3000 word essay would be a far better way of holding the PM to account than PMQs.
🚨 SUMMARY: The UK's social media ban for children from early 2027: - "User-to-user" apps where people create, share and interact with content (e.g. TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube, X, Facebook) will be banned for under-16s - WhatsApp, Signal and YouTube Kids will be exempt - Under-16s will also be banned from livestreaming, messaging strangers on gaming apps like Discord and using disappearing messages - 16 and 17 year olds will face nightly social media curfews and limits on infinite scrolling with more details next month - AI "romantic companion" chatbots will be banned for under-18s - Adults can still access social media through age checks like facial recognition, digital IDs, passports and credit cards
The age limit should rise every year so that by 2092, no one in Britain is online.
🚨NEW: A Daily Mail investigation claims a "shadowy" government unit, named RICU, intervenes to write statements by the families of victims of potentially racially linked incidents to stop them from inflaming tensions further with their remarks [@DailyMail]
Uncapped Sussex seamer Henry Crocombe has been called into England's Test squad as cover for Ollie Robinson, who is set to undergo a precautionary scan after reporting knee soreness at training
'Our food system isn’t working – here’s how we fix it.’ Laura Miller talks to Scotland’s new ‘food tsar’ about bringing down prices and tackling obesity. Listen to Scotcast: bbc.in/43vVGio
What about a ban on beheading ?
Karmelo Anthony's new mug shot is released after being sentenced to 35 years... bit.ly/4eikMWU
NEW: Andy Burnham has hinted at a new multibillion-pound spending commitment if he becomes PM, saying that more than 3.5mn women “deserve” compensation over what he regards as a pension scandal Earlier I attended a Makerfield hustings event hosted by @MENnewsdesk, in which Burnham said: “I stick by campaigners that I support. I stuck by the Hillsborough families, I’ll stick by the Waspi women because they deserve some recompense for the unfairness.” Stressing he wouldn’t ditch his longterm support for Waspi women, he said he felt “uncomfortable” that some politicians threw their support behind a cause but then went into government and “didn’t do anything” ft.com/content/1021ae…
