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The government has been toying with the idea of banning the platform X in the UK over its AI Grok’s ability to create indecent and sexualised pictures with consent and of children. So in this video, we’ll explain what’s happened and the ongoing backlash.

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Ofcom Documents

Ofcom Announces Investigation into X Over Grok
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/illegal-and-harmful-content/ofcom-launches-investigation-into-x-over-grok-sexualised-imagery

Ofcom Online Safety Enforcement Guidance
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/online-safety/information-for-industry/illegal-harms/online-safety-enforcement-guidance.pdf?v=391925

Updates On Ofcom Investigation into X
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/illegal-and-harmful-content/investigation-into-x-internet-unlimited-company-and-its-compliance-with-duties-to-protect-its-users-from-illegal-content-and-child-users-from-harmful-content

News Sources

The Independent Will X Be Banned in the UK?
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/x-ban-ofcom-uk-musk-grok-ai-images-b2898648.html

The Guardian Is It Legal to Produce or Post Undressed Images Without Consent
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/09/grok-ai-x-explainer-legal-regulation-nudified-images-social-media

BBC News X Could Lose Right to Self Regulate Says Starmer
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq845glnvl1o

What a New Law and an Investigation Could Mean for Grok AI Deepfakes
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq845glnvl1o

The Guardian Elon Musk Says UK wants to Suppress Free Speech
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/10/elon-musk-uk-free-speech-x-ban-grok-ai

The Conversation A Legal Scholar Explains Why It’s Happening and What Can Be Done
https://theconversation.com/grok-produces-sexualized-photos-of-women-and-minors-for-users-on-x-a-legal-scholar-explains-why-its-happening-and-what-can-be-done-272861

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The UK’s deal with Mauritius to hand back the Chagos Islands is once again under pressure, with the House of Lords making four separate amendments to the bill. But what is the deal and why is it so controversial? Could the Lords block it entirely?

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Parliamentary Documents

Lords Asks Government to Reconsider on Diego Garcia Bill
https://www.parliament.uk/business/news/2026/jan-2026/diego-garcia-bill-report-stage/

House of Lords vote on Diego Garcia Bill
https://votes.parliament.uk/votes/lords?SearchText=&FromDate=05%2F01%2F2026&ToDate=05%2F01%2F2026

Passage of the Diego Garcia Bill
https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/4004/stages

News Articles

BBC News What is the Chagos Islands Deal?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9dqg3nqynlo

The Standard Chagos Islands Deal Hammered By Lords
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/chagos-islands-deal-suffers-humiliating-defeats-in-the-lords-b1265130.html

Telegraph Shamefully Weak Government Has the Nation Turning to Foreign Allies for Security
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01/08/this-shamefully-weak-government-leaves-the-nation-turning-t/

Telegraph Peers Inflict Chagos Blow on Starmer
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/01/05/peers-inflict-chagos-blow-on-starmer/

Other

OHCHR Concerns Over Chagos Deal
https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/12/uk-and-mauritius-chagos-agreement-raises-concerns-over-chagossian-peoples

Human Rights Watch US and US Forced Displacement of Chagossians
https://www.hrw.org/report/2023/02/15/thats-when-nightmare-started/uk-and-us-forced-displacement-chagossians-and

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In this video, we’ll explain why Labour wants a Swiss-style trading relationship with the EU, and how they’re going about it.

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Starmer to pursue Swiss-style trade relationship with EU
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jan/04/starmer-says-closer-ties-eu-single-market-preferable-customs-union
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jan/06/keir-starmer-parliamentary-battle-over-eu-reset-policy
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62vzmle530o

UK public sentiment towards EU
https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/ten-years-after-brexit-were-talking-about-getting-closer-to-europe-again
https://x.com/LizWebsterSBF/status/1998158040533799095

Liberal Democrat bill on UK-EU customs union
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwywr089l7vo
https://news.sky.com/story/david-lammy-suggests-uk-would-benefit-from-rejoining-an-eu-customs-union-13479777

Impact of Brexit on trade
https://www.cer.eu/insights/brexit-four-years-answers-two-trade-paradoxes

EU customs union explained
https://ukandeu.ac.uk/explainers/explainer-customs-unions/

Swiss-EU trade relationship
https://www.cer.eu/insights/new-eu-swiss-deal-what-it-means-and-lessons-it-holds-uk-eu-reset
https://www.admin.ch/gov/en/start/documentation/swisseurelations.html

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5 years on from the brexit deal and nearly 10 years on from the referendum, we thought we’d do a little retrospective, and take a look at how Brexit’s going; hint, not brilliantly.

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In this video, we’re going to have a look into why switching Starmer out for a new Labour leader could backfire.

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YouGov Individual Polls

Keir Starmer
https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/explore/public_figure/Keir_Starmer

Wes Streeting
https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/explore/public_figure/Wes_Streeting

Andy Burnham
https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/explore/public_figure/Andy_Burnham

Angela Rayner
https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/explore/public_figure/Angela_Rayner

Other Polling

YouGov Favourability Ratings 2025
https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/53439-political-favourability-ratings-november-2025

YouGov Favourability Ratings November
https://ygo-assets-websites-editorial-emea.yougov.net/documents/Internal_Favourability_251215.pdf

YouGov Which Voters Have Abandoned Labour and Why?
https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/52435-a-year-after-the-2024-election-which-voters-have-abandoned-the-labour-party-and-why

YouGov Favourability April
https://ygo-assets-websites-editorial-emea.yougov.net/documents/Internal_Favourability_250414_w.pdf

LabourList Cabinet Ranking November
labourlist.org/2025/11/labour-cabinet-league-table-november-2025/x

LabourList Head to Head
https://labourlist.org/2025/11/keir-starmer-leadership-contest-streeting-rayner-burnham-miliband/

Ipsos Mori Best Prime Minister Head to Head
https://www.ipsos.com/en-uk/andy-burnham-preferred-keir-starmer-pm-narrowly-leads-nigel-farage

News Sources

The Guardian How Starmer Became Most Unpopular Leader in the West
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/sep/09/how-keir-starmers-polling-became-one-of-the-worst-in-the-west-in-charts

The Times Andy Burnham Eyes Return to Westminster
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/andy-burnham-keir-starmer-labour-n70x0pbpv?gaa_at

Unheard Wes Streeting is a Man of All Factions
https://unherd.com/2023/07/wes-streeting-is-a-man-for-all-factions/

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