Free countries should not be banning Twitter

LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 12: In this photo illustration, a screen displays a post by Elon Musk on the X app, showing an AI prompt-created image, made with Xai's Grok app, depicting Musk wearing a bikini, on January 12, 2026 in London, England. Today the UK communications regulator Ofcom launches a formal investigation into Elon Musk's social media platform X regarding its AI chatbot, Grok. The probe centres on reports that Grok has been used to generate non-consensual sexual deepfakes, including "undressed" images of women and sexualised images of children. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Obscene images generated by Grok are being used as a thinly veiled excuse by Labour to pursue a political vendetta against Elon Musk. That is the behaviour of a banana republic, not an advanced democracy like Britain, says Tom Harwood

We have all watched with horror at the slithers of news that flicker through the Great Iranian Firewall. The Islamic Republic took the nuclear option of switching off the internet for its 92m citizens last Thursday, and the drips of news that make it out to the rest of us are nothing short of appalling.

Much of the news that has made its way out, uses Elon Musk’s starlink satellites, to bypass national internet infrastructure. It has then come through encrypted messaging platforms like Telegram or Whatsapp. Video has also made it on to X (Twitter), a resource........

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