内容摘要：Merlin Cinemas started 35 years ago with a single-screen site in Penzance but has since expanded to operate 19 sites across the UK.

Merlin Cinemas started 35 years ago with a single-screen site in Penzance but has since expanded to operate 19 sites across the UK.

A spokesman from the messaging app Telegram said they "immediately removed UK channels that called for violence as they were discovered in August".None of the other major tech platforms responded to the BBC's request for comment.

Experts say the unrest showed the power - and responsibility - social media platforms have."Ofcom is saying that social media posts inciting riots are not just words - they play a big part in fanning the flames of disorder," said Rashik Parmar, from BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT."There should be accountability where platforms allow dangerously divisive content to go unchecked," he added.

Media analyst Hanna Kahlert, at Midia Research, said Ofcom's findings amounted to a "call for social platforms to take greater ownership of the impact of content".At the time of the unrest, Ofcom faced criticism for not doing more to rein in the spread of untrue and inflammatory content.

- but also pointed out the enhanced powers it is due to get under the Online Safety Act had not yet come into force.

The act will see the creation of codes of practice for big tech firms which will place new responsibilities on them for tackling disinformation.The elections analyst Sir John Curtice argues in

that "the mainstream is dead", five parties have a chance of making real inroads in these contests and what stands out now is that both Labour and the Conservatives are struggling, rather than the conventional dynamic of one being up while the other is down.The Conservatives have spent weeks talking up how down they feel about these elections.

And senior Labour folk too are cranking up the gloom in the conversations I have with them.Which then leaves us with Reform UK, the Liberal Democrats, the Green Party and an often overlooked element of local English democracy – independents.