Starmer's Under-16 Social Media Ban and New York's Muslim Dog Row — SF685

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Russell Brand

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🗓️ 20 February 2026

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Britain is weighing a potential social media ban for under-16s, with Keir Starmer signalling tougher age limits and platform controls while facing accusations of inconsistency over voting rights and warnings that enforcement would require digital ID infrastructure. The debate opens wider questions about privacy, surveillance, and how far the state should reach into online life. Across the Atlantic, a cultural row in New York over comments describing dogs as "unclean" spirals into a broader clash over religion, identity, public space, and political double standards, turning what began as a tweet into a combustible debate about norms, tolerance, and urban reality.

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, Russell Brand, actually,
0:11.0	Russell Brand, controversial conspiracy theorist.
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0:30.6	And while I take my first hit of Methylene Blue of the day, praying that I bypass the old Nash's.
0:40.5	I want to point out to you that we've got a fantastic show coming up.
0:43.4	Social media ban in the UK.
0:46.9	How are they dressing it up as helping people?
0:49.4	Well, by saying they're protecting youngsters, of course.
0:52.5	Marco Rubio, we've got a story to discuss with his growing popularity after his performance
1:00.0	at the Munich Security Conference earlier in the week.
1:03.1	We'll be talking about big food and real food.
1:04.6	In fact, here I am just earlier today apologising to Mike Tyson. Have a look at this. Thanks so much. Do you want to say something to Mike Tyson? He's coming on next. Yes, I'm glad he's coming on because I've been wanting to challenge Mike to a fight. Oh, no, he's really there. Hello, Mike. How amazing to speak again. I love you, brother. I love you. I love you. Praise the Lord. I hope that you are free and in recovery. I pray for you regularly. I'd like to take this opportunity to apologize to you, Mike, for that time when I asked you a stupid question. You probably don't even remember it. You live a big and busy life. But I want to reiterate my respect and admiration for you as a champion and as a man
1:45.8	in recovery and now as an advocate for these beautiful values. And as I promised, I would tell
1:50.6	Dr. Ross, your hair looks fantastic. And I'm going to have to mean body hair by that because
1:57.4	you're a shaved man. But I also am confident that your body hair looks fantastic.
2:02.0	And I'll leave it there, Mike, because I don't want to, you know, recourse the trauma.
2:06.1	It's all love, brother. It's all love, brother.
2:07.9	All love. Praise the Lord. Cheers, Mike. Thank you, brother.
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