Good morning. Before the newsletter, an update on the news that broke last night that King Charles has been diagnosed with cancer. Buckingham Palace says that Charles is already undergoing treatment; it did not specify the type of the disease, other than to say it’s not prostate cancer. You can read Rajeev Syal’s analysis of the impact of the news on how the king carries out his role, and Andrew Gregory’s cancer explainer.
Today, we’re covering online safety for children, starting with a grimly familiar feature of the age: a devastated parent, granted a platform they never wanted, and using it to demand greater guardrails on smartphones to protect others from the fate that befell their child. At the weekend, Brianna Ghey’s mother Esther gave an interview to the BBC in which she called for social media apps to be banned on smartphones for under-16s. Esther Ghey said her daughter might have been saved if the searches being made by her eventual killers had been flagged to their parents.
