While tourism to the UK ramps up across Scotland and Northern Ireland, London’s numbers are less impressive. With past terrorist activity making people jittery, the cracks in London’s security are affecting the capital’s appeal to travellers, who are heading elsewhere.

Web giants such as Facebook and Google have woven themselves into billions of lives, but countless controversies over the years have a growing number of users questioning if they can trust these companies. How are data breaches and fake news changing people’s relationships with big tech?

While Twitter champions free speech, it's also allowed those inciting racial hatred to flourish. People who feel insufficiently protected online are hacking the system, so all content they view is filtered through Germany's tough censorship laws – making their online experience more enjoyable.

China’s LGBT community still often finds itself on the receiving end of state censors. However the official aversion to expressions of sexual identity appears out of step with the shifting public mood. When Weibo attempted to ‘clean up’ gay content, it faced a backlash and was forced to back down.