Home Office TikTok account posting deportation footage accused of turning ‘brutality into clickbait’ Video of raids and migrant arrests shared by profile with slogan ‘restoring order and control to our borders’
Keir Starmer tells MPs he is open to social media ban for young people PM says he is alarmed at reports about children’s screen time and has shifted position on Australian-style policy
Lloyds questioned by watchdog over use of staff banking data in pay talks ICO says it is making inquiries with banking group over data privacy after it accessed 30,000 staff accounts
Can X be banned under UK law and what are the other options? UK media regulator is investigating whether X has breached the Online Safety Act – what could happen next?
Law making creation of nonconsensual, intimate images illegal to come into force this week – as it happened Liz Kendall says decision by X last week to restrict the Grok AI deepfake tool to subscribers did not go far enough
UK threatens action against X over sexualised AI images of women and children Government signals support for possible Ofcom intervention on Grok as scrutiny of X’s AI tool intensifies
Amazon insists I return a phone it says ‘may be lost’ I have paid two monthly £108 instalments but am now phone-less and out of pocket
Pressure grows on No 10 as Burnham backs Tory call for under-16s social media ban Labour Greater Manchester mayor says he agrees with Kemi Badenoch about need to protect young people
Senior Labour MPs urge government to ban cryptocurrency political donations Campaign groups argue online transactions ‘present real risks to our democracy’ as it is hard to trace their true source
Mandelson praises Trump’s ‘graciousness’ and declines to apologise for friendship with Jeffrey Epstein – as it happened In first TV interview since he was sacked as UK ambassador to US, Mandelson says association with Epstein was ‘terrible mistake’ but adds: ‘I was not culpable’
Excessive screen time could limit vocabulary of toddlers, experts warn Children aged two with highest screen use can say significantly fewer words, UK government research finds
Ban social media for under-16s, top teaching union urges UK government NASUWT says evidence growing that unregulated access affects behaviour in school and harms mental health
David Lammy: JD Vance agrees that sexualised AI images on X are ‘unacceptable’ Exclusive: US vice-president ‘sympathetic’ to concerns over Grok-generated pornography, says deputy PM
Elon Musk says UK wants to suppress free speech as X faces possible ban Ministers warn platform could be blocked after Grok AI used to create sexual images without consent
‘It’s younger people seeking some sort of spirituality’: UK Bible sales reach record high Surge in 2025 sales correlates with the growth in church attendances in England and Wales, research shows