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Banning under-16s from TikTok, Instagram and YouTube answers a real public anxiety, but a law the government cannot enforce risks becoming a comforting fiction that lets the platforms off the hook.
Ministers are edging towards temporary state control of Britain's biggest water company. Whatever happens next, the priority must be customers and rivers, not the creditors who profited on the way up.
MPs want ministers to walk away from a £330m contract over the firm's 'values'. The instinct is understandable, but ditching a working system on principle alone would be a serious mistake unless we are honest about what replaces it.
The Lords debate on welfare and a generation locked out of work framed the choice as compassion versus cost. The real failure is a system that pays to keep people idle rather than helping them back to work.
With Thames Water lurching from crisis to crisis and a mayor calling for nationalisation, ministers are clinging to a reform plan the voters have already rejected in principle.
A minority of unelected peers ran down the clock on a bill the Commons had passed. Whatever you think of assisted dying, the way it was blocked is the real story.
The government is edging towards age restrictions on social media while resisting an outright phone ban. The instinct is right, but the enforcement is where this will be won or lost.