Tackle anti-social media

WE HAVE long demanded more accountability in social media, and therefore salute the timely message from Culture Secretary Jeremy Wright: that big tech firms could face criminal sanctions for neglecting online harm.

For too long, tech giants have acted with impunity, without the constraints faced by publishers and with aggressive strategies to keep users online, resulting in addiction, bullying, abuse and even suicide.

Now we know more about the damage done by social media, it’s imperative to act and Mr Wright has given us a glimpse of what might be in the forthcoming White Paper on online harm. It’s time to bring anti-social media to heel.

AS PRESIDENT of the Board of Trade in the Edwardian era, Churchill was a key architect of the creation of the welfare state, through the introduction of unemployment insurance, labour exchanges and a minimum wage for certain workers.

But it is Churchill’s central part in the Second World War that makes a mockery of McDonnell’s assertion of villainy. Indeed, the Shadow Chancellor would not have the freedom to spout his drivel today had it not been for Churchill’s determination to stand up to Nazi tyranny in