Keir Starmer has finally returned to posting on X after a week of silence on the platform. He’s still belligerent:
“Free speech is not the freedom to violate consent. Young women’s images are not public property, and their safety is not up for debate. I welcome that X is now acting to ensure full compliance with UK law – it must happen immediately. If we need to strengthen existing laws further, we are prepared to do that.”
That’s after Science and Technology Secretary Liz Kendall admitted in the Commons that most people get their news from the platform. That X-odus didn’t last too long…
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Science and Technology Secretary Liz Kendall addressed calls for the government to stop posting on X (mainly by Labour MPs) while discussing potentially banning the platform in the Commons. Hilariously she explained that the reason they haven’t done that yet is because many people get their news from the site. She said:
“Understandable calls for the government to end its participation on X. I really do understand why many colleagues have come to this conclusion when X seems so unwilling to clean up its act. The government will of course keep our participation on X under review. But our job is to protect women and girls from illegal and harmful content wherever it is found. And I think it’s also worth bearing in mind with 19 million people on X in this country and more than a quarter of them saying that it they use it as their primary source of news that our views and often simply the facts need to be heard wherever possible.”
And they want to ban it…
Liz Kendall is talking about whether to ban X in the Commons. Watch along…
As Ofcom launches its investigation into Musk’s X, threatening a full-on ban, its top brass are raking in the cash. Their latest accounts quietly released over the weekend show CEO Melanie Dawes pocketed a cool £385,000 in 2025 – an inflation-busting 8% increase on 2024. That’s more than double what the Prime Minister earns….
Dawes and Ofcom Group Directors took home an eye-watering combined £2.54 million in 2025, compared to £1.9 million in 2024 – a 31% increase. Among the winners is the new Online Safety Act Group Director Oliver Griffiths, appointed at the end of 2024, who earned £272,950. Nice work if you can get it…
Downing Street has said it fully supports a ban on X if Ofcom decides to do so. Letting the two-tier watchdog do the dirty work…
Starmer’s spokesman said a at the Lobby briefing of journalists this morning:
“Ofcom has a back stop power to apply to the courts to block services in the UK where they refuse to uphold our law. If Ofcom deems that to be necessary, they will have our full support.”
The PM’s spokesman added that the UK is committed to free speech in response to US Republican congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna warning she would “sanction not only Starmer, but Britain as a whole” if he bans X. There’s no chance of him banning ChatGPT, he’d have to shut down half of Whitehall…
Speaking to Sky News off the back of Rachel Reeves’ Air Passenger Duty hike, Ryanair chief executive Michael O’Leary said:
“Labour is dependent on those Red Wall seats, and yet every move she makes poisons economic growth and damages the UK’s recovery… it’s the Chancellor who stumbles from policy misstep to policy misstep… I think her policy decisions are incredibly stupid.”
