Apple, Google and other tech firms have been warned they must roll out software preventing children from taking, sharing and receiving nude images on smartphones and devices
For years, Big Tech has done little, at times anything, to protect children online.
Meanwhile, youngsters have been groomed, blackmailed and pressured into sharing intimate images, often with devastating consequences.
The technology industry built platforms worth billions while failing to make child safety the priority it should always have been. Too often, growth and profit appeared to come before protection. Keir Starmer is right to say enough is enough.
If Britain becomes the first country in the world to stop children taking, sharing and receiving explicit images on their phones, it will be a landmark moment. For too long, governments have accepted that the internet is beyond control. It is not.
The technology already exists. What has been missing is the determination to demand its use. If tech giants can build products that shape our daily lives, they can help keep our children safe. Protecting youngsters from exploitation is not censorship. It is common sense. Britain now has the chance to lead the world.
Amazon must remember its responsibilities
Millions of Britons use Amazon every week. Thousands rely on it for work. But with that success comes responsibility.
When a company records billions in sales and hundreds of millions in profit, people are entitled to ask whether it is paying its fair share towards the schools, hospitals and public services we all depend on.
Amazon insists it follows the law, and there is no suggestion it has done otherwise. Yet the lack of transparency surrounding its wider UK tax affairs fuels understandable concern.
High street retailers and local stores do not have the luxury of complex international structures. They compete, employ local people and pay taxes in plain sight.
Name and shame councils who ignore potholes
Motorists are fed up with roads being patched up one week, only to crumble the next. Potholes damage cars, waste money and test patience.
Councils should fix roads properly the first time. Naming and shaming poor performers is welcome. Road users deserve lasting repairs, not endless cones, closures and excuses.