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Is Youtube Kids banned ?, my daughter enjoys watching Baby Shark, Miss Rachel, Cocomelon (OK We can ban that one ) and various other stuff aimed at the 4 year old market on there...
Seems an odd one as it is not really a social media company, or if it is you'll have to stick Netflix, Disney, Prime, Paramount, Hulu etc in there too.

It was not in Australia and presumably won’t be here.

Ok - The carveout in Australia for Bluesky looks frankly weird though.

It’s not a carve out for BlueSky. Lots of smaller social media sites used little by kids were not directly covered by the legislation. BlueSky is, AIUI, voluntarily following the same rules in Australia anyway.

Is PB on Ze List?

Given the highly corrosive nature of PB to society, it has now been banned in 93 countries.

Ruining young minds. Imagine the impact on an impressionable 10 year old of coming across that debate on roundabout etiquette that raged on here for the best part of 3 days last month.

Always give way to the right

I think Rupert Lowe says the same thing… possibly in a different context.

I've been out all morning and catching up about what's been said by Labour, Reform, Tories and others.

What's MASSIVE and nothing to do with the content, possibly due to panic scheduling by some, but the Content can only be read by what you can see, hear and find.Is the exposure or lack of it.

Of course the incumbent Government gets priority whoever they are but Reform on immigration and economic issues pertaining to immigration have totally drowned out the Tories defence agenda.

It's striking just how irrelevant the Tories are becoming even with Core past Tory supporting media.

It beggars belief though that whoever is advising Badenoch coukd really believe that after 14 years they could dare to give ultimatums to Labour on the defence topic.

Jenrick has totally outshine his past Party on exposure and that trend if it becomes endemic will see the extinction of the Tories as a main stream Party.

You have been out all morning but find Reform has drowned out Kemi's defence announcement and then your usual anti Kemi garbage

How on earth if you have been out have you drawn that conclusion and it is nonsense anyway

The news is being dominated by the under 16 media ban

Of course unlike you I research across media not just the Telegraph

The resident kemity dares to question impartiality

Jenrick has had massively more exposure than Kemi

She does have the opportunity of an emergency question but the poor old Tories have completely neutered that concemt

I rarely read the Telegraph but do read across the media including the Guardian and watch Sky news

Today has been all about the under 16 media ban and the US - Iran deal

I have not seen Kemi or Jenrick on the news today

Mind you your answer to defence is to ban Trident making you one of Putin's helpers who would be delighted

Jenrick announced a cleverly designed plan to cut Employer NI by increasing it for none citizens...

Now it's racist and has fundamental flaws in that TCS and co seem to avoid paying employer NI on the overseas workers they ship here but he definitely picked the wrong day to announce it.

The conservatives are well rid of him and Braverman and their idiotic ideas

Listen to manufacturers and unions: high electricity prices are killing industry

https://www.theguardian.com/business/nils-pratley-on-finance/2026/jun/15/manufacturers-unions-electricity-prices-make-uk-tuc

And? The problem is obvious the unknown is how do you solve the issue given that the market price is usually set by the global price of natural gas

You decouple it by placing gas plants into a strategic reserve, where they would receive a regulated return for remaining open. They would be managed centrally and called on to generate power as needed outside of the market, which would continue to use marginal pricing, which would be considerably lower and less volatile than under the current arrangement which benefits all the power suppliers sheltering under the high prices.

The strategic gas plant reserve would be subsidised a lot of the time but the cost would be much more than offset by the growth (and tax) benefit of cheaper electricity to industry and consumers.

I hope someone in government is modelling this in an unbiased way, and not under the influence of the the power industry.

Perhaps Burnham will sort it at the same time as he sorts the water industry.

However I suspect some senior heads in the Treasury will have to roll in order to change the culture there.

This is a very good idea once we get to a point where gas is only providing the occasional back up. The problem now is that it still provides around 25% of our generation

I've been out all morning and catching up about what's been said by Labour, Reform, Tories and others.

What's MASSIVE and nothing to do with the content, possibly due to panic scheduling by some, but the Content can only be read by what you can see, hear and find.Is the exposure or lack of it.

Of course the incumbent Government gets priority whoever they are but Reform on immigration and economic issues pertaining to immigration have totally drowned out the Tories defence agenda.

It's striking just how irrelevant the Tories are becoming even with Core past Tory supporting media.

It beggars belief though that whoever is advising Badenoch coukd really believe that after 14 years they could dare to give ultimatums to Labour on the defence topic.

Jenrick has totally outshine his past Party on exposure and that trend if it becomes endemic will see the extinction of the Tories as a main stream Party.

You have been out all morning but find Reform has drowned out Kemi's defence announcement and then your usual anti Kemi garbage

How on earth if you have been out have you drawn that conclusion and it is nonsense anyway

The news is being dominated by the under 16 media ban

Of course unlike you I research across media not just the Telegraph

The resident kemity dares to question impartiality

Jenrick has had massively more exposure than Kemi

She does have the opportunity of an emergency question but the poor old Tories have completely neutered that concemt

I rarely read the Telegraph but do read across the media including the Guardian and watch Sky news

Today has been all about the under 16 media ban and the US - Iran deal

I have not seen Kemi or Jenrick on the news today

Mind you your answer to defence is to ban Trident making you one of Putin's helpers who would be delighted

Jenrick announced a cleverly designed plan to cut Employer NI by increasing it for none citizens...

Now it's racist and has fundamental flaws in that TCS and co seem to avoid paying employer NI on the overseas workers they ship here but he definitely picked the wrong day to announce it.

The conservatives are well rid of him and Braverman and their idiotic ideas

I wouldn't call the plan idiotic - to Reform supporters it looks great, lower employer NI for them, paid for by a set of (coloured) people they would prefer to leave the country.

Downside is if the foreigners actually left the extra tax would disappear so the Employer NI deductions could only be short term..

Given the voters Reform are targetting it's a great policy albeit with a massive flaw..

I've been out all morning and catching up about what's been said by Labour, Reform, Tories and others.

What's MASSIVE and nothing to do with the content, possibly due to panic scheduling by some, but the Content can only be read by what you can see, hear and find.Is the exposure or lack of it.

Of course the incumbent Government gets priority whoever they are but Reform on immigration and economic issues pertaining to immigration have totally drowned out the Tories defence agenda.

It's striking just how irrelevant the Tories are becoming even with Core past Tory supporting media.

It beggars belief though that whoever is advising Badenoch coukd really believe that after 14 years they could dare to give ultimatums to Labour on the defence topic.

Jenrick has totally outshine his past Party on exposure and that trend if it becomes endemic will see the extinction of the Tories as a main stream Party.

You have been out all morning but find Reform has drowned out Kemi's defence announcement and then your usual anti Kemi garbage

How on earth if you have been out have you drawn that conclusion and it is nonsense anyway

The news is being dominated by the under 16 media ban

Of course unlike you I research across media not just the Telegraph

The resident kemity dares to question impartiality

Jenrick has had massively more exposure than Kemi

She does have the opportunity of an emergency question but the poor old Tories have completely neutered that concemt

I rarely read the Telegraph but do read across the media including the Guardian and watch Sky news

Today has been all about the under 16 media ban and the US - Iran deal

I have not seen Kemi or Jenrick on the news today

Mind you your answer to defence is to ban Trident making you one of Putin's helpers who would be delighted

I believe part of the remarks of the judge on the Free Palestine ‘terrorists’ was that they were not the same as the Suffragettes because they violently attacked and destroyed property while the latter arsonists and bombers did not.

I love a bit of revisionist history as much as the next man, but..

Do you have a quote? Or is this from an Albanian black cab driver?

Some irony in PB’s chief anecdotalist asking for verification.


The Lady Chief Justice: Palestine Action was not a direct action civil disobedience protest group like the suffragettes, but used violence to destroy property

The suffragettes burned down country houses & train stations, bombed churches & sent letter bombs to politicians.

https://x.com/saulstaniforth/status/2066474811598016962?s=61&t=LYVEHh2mqFy1oUJAdCfe-Q

Yet another example of living in an Eternal Present. Reality is what the AI/Internet says it is, not what books in libraries or contemporaneous reports/pamphlets/cuttings says it is, nor what historians say it is.

So many people have a distorted view of history. The suffragettes won in the end, and we all remember snippets, such as the lady ran over by a horse, and the slightly odd names (Emmeline Pankhurst - that can't be a real person, right?)

Its everywhere in history. There is typically an 'everyman' view of history that people vaguely know. We tend to think of WW2 as less bloody for the British Army that WW1 and by strict terms it was, but mainly because they only fought in Europe for about 12 months in total. Actual casualty rates from 6th June 1944 - 8th May 1945 were pretty similar to those in the WW1.

And Henry 8th was monstrously fat. Well yes he was, at the end, but in his prime he was a fit, tall, athletic man.

And so on.

On Henry VIII it surprised me as an adult to learn quite how long he was married to Catherine of Aragon - more than twenty years!

Obviously he went through them with bloodthirsty pace afterwards, but the accepted history is about the latter period, rather than the earlier.

Listen to manufacturers and unions: high electricity prices are killing industry

https://www.theguardian.com/business/nils-pratley-on-finance/2026/jun/15/manufacturers-unions-electricity-prices-make-uk-tuc

And? The problem is obvious the unknown is how do you solve the issue given that the market price is usually set by the global price of natural gas

You decouple it by placing gas plants into a strategic reserve, where they would receive a regulated return for remaining open. They would be managed centrally and called on to generate power as needed outside of the market, which would continue to use marginal pricing, which would be considerably lower and less volatile than under the current arrangement which benefits all the power suppliers sheltering under the high prices.

The strategic gas plant reserve would be subsidised a lot of the time but the cost would be much more than offset by the growth (and tax) benefit of cheaper electricity to industry and consumers.

I hope someone in government is modelling this in an unbiased way, and not under the influence of the the power industry.

Perhaps Burnham will sort it at the same time as he sorts the water industry.

However I suspect some senior heads in the Treasury will have to roll in order to change the culture there.

I believe part of the remarks of the judge on the Free Palestine ‘terrorists’ was that they were not the same as the Suffragettes because they violently attacked and destroyed property while the latter arsonists and bombers did not.

I love a bit of revisionist history as much as the next man, but..

Do you have a quote? Or is this from an Albanian black cab driver?

Some irony in PB’s chief anecdotalist asking for verification.


The Lady Chief Justice: Palestine Action was not a direct action civil disobedience protest group like the suffragettes, but used violence to destroy property

The suffragettes burned down country houses & train stations, bombed churches & sent letter bombs to politicians.

https://x.com/saulstaniforth/status/2066474811598016962?s=61&t=LYVEHh2mqFy1oUJAdCfe-Q

Yet another example of living in an Eternal Present. Reality is what the AI/Internet says it is, not what books in libraries or contemporaneous reports/pamphlets/cuttings says it is, nor what historians say it is.

So many people have a distorted view of history. The suffragettes won in the end, and we all remember snippets, such as the lady ran over by a horse, and the slightly odd names (Emmeline Pankhurst - that can't be a real person, right?)

Its everywhere in history. There is typically an 'everyman' view of history that people vaguely know. We tend to think of WW2 as less bloody for the British Army that WW1 and by strict terms it was, but mainly because they only fought in Europe for about 12 months in total. Actual casualty rates from 6th June 1944 - 8th May 1945 were pretty similar to those in the WW1.

And Henry 8th was monstrously fat. Well yes he was, at the end, but in his prime he was a fit, tall, athletic man.

And so on.

On Henry VIII it surprised me as an adult to learn quite how long he was married to Catherine of Aragon - more than twenty years!

Obviously he went through them with bloodthirsty pace afterwards, but the accepted history is about the latter period, rather than the earlier.

Indeed. And if they had had a surviving male heir he would not have divorced her, broken with Rome and all that followed.