The internet suddenly went down in Iran last night, as courageous Iranians continued to rise up against the Ayatollah. The UK government was apparently inspired. Not by the rebels, whose plight the Prime Minister has remained remarkably quiet about – but by the mullahs’ digital crackdown.

Call me a conspiracy loon, but I dare say Labour’s ire for X isn’t simply about the site’s supposedly insufficient safeguarding policies

Labour has issued its most serious threat yet to social-media giant X – whose owner, Elon Musk, has become this rudderless government’s go-to bogeyman. The platform could be banned in Britain, Downing Street sources let it be known, if it failed to comply with demands to act on the sickos who have been using X’s AI tool, Grok, to digitally undress women, even children.

‘X has got to get a grip of this and Ofcom has our full support to take action in relation to this. This is wrong’, burbled Keir Starmer, in an interview on his favoured outlet for sabre-rattling edicts: Greatest Hits Radio. ‘It’s........

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