It’s the great TikTok panic – and it could accelerate the end of the internet as we know it

Democracies should be maturely debating online safety and data, not making kneejerk responses, says Emily Taylor of the International Security Programme, Chatham House

Commons privileges committee suggests it won’t publish Boris Johnson Partygate defence dossier today – as it happened

Former prime minister has submitted dossier defending his behaviour before televised grilling on Wednesday

MPs and peers ask information commissioner to investigate TikTok

Letter argues that Chinese-owned video-sharing app could be in breach of UK law

Will UK follow US in demanding TikTok be sold by its Chinese owner?

TikTok will be concerned Rishi Sunak will match each upward ratchet in pressure from his allies

UK bans TikTok from government mobile phones

Move brings Britain in line with US and Europe and reflects worsening relations with China

UK expected to ban TikTok from government mobile phones

Ban on Chinese owned video-sharing app marks U-turn from previous relaxed position

Gary Lineker: false claim I called northern voters ‘racist’ is dangerous

Match of the Day host decries Stoke-on-Trent North MP’s claim he called constituents ‘racist bigots’

Rishi Sunak hints at TikTok ban from UK government devices

Prime minister says he will take ‘whatever steps necessary’ to protect Britain’s security

Gary Lineker stands by his immigration policy remarks

Match of the Day host says he does not fear BBC suspension for comparing government language to that of 1930s Germany

WhatsApp would not remove end-to-end encryption for UK law, says chief

Meta’s head of chat app says it would not comply with the requirements set out in online safety bill

Gary Lineker responds to critics of his immigration policy comments

Presenter mocks ‘freedom of speech champions … demanding silence from those with whom they disagree’

The lesson from Matt Hancock’s WhatsApps is this: these clowns can’t govern, their only skill is covering tracks

Rightwing editorial agendas shaped the narrative of the Lockdown Files, but what they really showed was bunglers bungling in secret, writes the Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

‘Keir Starmer just ordered an alpaca airstrike!’ The game that holds up a dystopian mirror to the UK

Dan Douglas started Duke Smoochem as a Twitter joke. Now the project has spiralled into an epic portrait of a declining nation – with everyone from Matt Hancock to GB News in its satirical crosshairs

A (partial) defence of Matt Hancock: leaders must be free to discuss policy in private

His WhatsApp messages look embarrassing and chaotic, but such leaks could do genuine harm to political debate, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

UK scientists welcome government’s new technology plan but say more funding needed

Intervention is ‘yet another sticking plaster’ says Royal Society president, as EU funding programmes highlighted