[Boiler]

Today's "isn't Starmer the worst?" is that he's pronounced himself "open minded on banning social media for under 16s.

I've looked at the European context of this issue.

https://www.euractiv.com/news/to-ban-or ... or-minors/

The map rather looks like the UK is some sort of libertarian outlier. Except it isn't. Lots of those shaded countries are just banning phones in schools, which is the same as the UK. There's also a fair bit of collecting evidence. The idea that everyone else is banning it and we're not "because tech lobbyists" isn't that obvious.

Anyway, I thought that the Government's problem was that it was "authoritarian". One man's authoritarian is another man's "taking tough and necessary action", evidently. And I thought the porn ban was widely ridiculed as a joke because kids just get a VPN? As indeed they can. So what's the difference here?

Well, if the insufferable pricks BTL vote for the left-wing Farage at the next GE and help get the real deal into Government, they'll really have summat to roar about, won't they...?

(As will the rest of us)

[Tubby Isaacs]

Has Zack actually done anything on the London Assembly? It's not the most powerful body, but there's a platform there for practical proposals. Yet I've not heard a word about his performance there. Seems odd.