Ofcom – the regulator for communication services – has unveiled new plans to enforce stricter restrictions and new safety measures, in a bid to prevent children accessing inappropriate and harmful content online. The measures have been introduced as part of the Online Safety Act, which means social media and online companies are now legally responsible for keeping young children safe online. This includes fines to online companies who do not protect young users from content that promotes self-harm and crime. Other websites, like Pornhub, have changed to ensure users are verifying their age via photo-ID and credit cards.
In other news, The Sunday Telegraph reported more than 25,400 migrants have crossed the Channel so far this year in 432 small boats, up 50 percent on last year’s figures. Some 5,454 made it in July alone. Foreign nationals are arrested for sexual offences at a rate 3.5× higher than British citizens: in 2024, foreign nationals accounted for roughly 23–27% of rape convictions, and 15–22% of all sexual offence convictions, despite comprising around 10–11% of the population in England & Wales. It is a fact that many of these illegal immigrants are committing heinous acts, and we are just welcoming them with open arms, throwing freebies at them – at least they will no longer have easy access to porn.
Nonetheless, in the UK, we have issues of our own. The Crime Survey for England & Wales (CSEW) estimated around 9.4 million incidents of headline crime (including theft, violence, criminal damage, fraud, and computer misuse) in the year ending March 2025 – a 7% increase from 8.8 million in March 2024. And, while the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, continues to drape pride flags around London and ridicule British culture, these figures continue to rise. There is little chance they will decrease, with the most recent rate of positive outcomes (when police identify a suspect and they face justice) falling from 25% to just 11% in 2024.
What is the more pressing priority: online pornography, or crime spiralling out of control, with the perpetrators free to reoffend? Again, the government is still burying its head in the sand, ignoring the real issues that afflict Britain. While the internet is potentially harmful, it cannot be the state’s chief responsibility to keep young people safe online. Surely that onus rests with parents and carers, who must implement restrictions in a reasonable way which still allows their charges to experience the internet. Back in the real world, one cannot fathom why we are still reading stories in the media about migrants raping young children. Take the most recent case as an example: Mohammad Kabir and Ahmad Mulakhil were arrested for allegedly kidnapping and raping a 12 year-old girl in Nuneaton.
Reform UK leader, Nigel Farage spoke out against the updated Online Safety Bill:
“Millions of people have noticed what they’re getting on their feeds is different to what it was just last week. It begins to look as though state suppression of genuine free speech may be upon us already.”
Peter Kyle attacked Farage for his comments: “Make no mistake about it, if people like Jimmy Savile were alive today, he’d be perpetrating his crimes online. And Nigel Farage is saying that he’s on their side.” Kyle doubled down on his comments after Farage demanded an apology. But, isn’t his party on the side of allowing floods of illegal immigrants into the country, who are raping and attacking British citizens, including young girls?
The people of Britain are making their feelings clear about the mishandling of Britain and its egregious social consequences, with more protests erupting across the nation outside hotels that are housing migrants via the public purse. We must prioritise problems in our country that matter to the public. Labour have promised to ‘smash the gangs’ and control levels of migration via yet another new deal with France. But, all we see are age verifications on social media websites, knives still on the streets, crime increasing, and more boats being washed up on the shores.
Lying Labour strikes again.
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Spare a thought for UK freedom of expression
Quite agreed. The executive’s policy priorities are back to front. Crime (especially serious and violent crime) prevention is a top priority – the consumption of salacious Internet content, whilst undesirable in many social contexts, needs to be tackled by wise education and parental upbringing, not clumsy blanket bans. Governments are adept at avoiding tackling fundamental problems by engaging in controversial but distractive side-issue policies.
Lying Labour, absolutely. Is there any hope that if we are ever allowed to vote again, nobody will believe anything that Labour tells us, ever, ever again?
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