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  • Former health secretary Wes Streeting has backed banning under-16s from social media in the UK, accusing regulators and politicians of being “asleep at the wheel” on the issue.

    Wes Streeting? Is that the same Wes Streeting who defended Mandelson’s relationship with Epstein?

    The Health Secretary who was received over £350,000 in donations from private healthcare companies?

    Who was texting with Mandelson about visiting the US to meet industry figures in the healthcare sector?

    The one selling out the NHS to Palantir and the US? That Wes Streeting.

    Everyone knows not to trust a word out of his mouth now, surely.

    The prime minister vowed on Tuesday to take “decisive” action to tackle the impact of social media on children.

    “I’m absolutely clear that this needs to be something where there’s a game changer, so we will be acting,” Starmer told reporters.

    “The question is only what we do, and that will be coming very quickly because we took powers earlier this year to make sure we can act very, very quickly.”

    Oh right.









  • The whole concept that allowing the free expression of objectionable ideas will allow them to be dissected and disproven in the cold light of public debate, has itself been disproven over and over for at least the past decade.

    We live in a different era, where partisanship and propaganda are so powerful that there is no longer an authoritative voice that the general public trusts. The government is distrusted, the both-sides-BBC is distrusted, the broadsheets that turned into clickbait farms are distrusted.

    We have to stop giving oxygen to fascists in the hope that people will just see how wrong they are. I don’t care what people attending this march really believe. What I care about is that people preaching hate should not have a platform, anywhere, under any circumstances.