The Wrap With Anna Botting

The government warned British households to be ready for disruption if hostile states or terrorists attacked critical infrastructure, launching a three-year resilience campaign. The advice included thinking about what would be needed to survive three days in a crisis and a checklist covering water, food and medicine, with warnings about cyber attacks, payment systems going offline and supply-chain failures, including to supermarkets. Guests discussed whether the warning was a sensible precaution or risked overreaction and stockpiling.

Dozens of government websites were offline after vulnerabilities were found in PHP programming code used across large parts of the internet. A leading internet security expert told Sky News that hackers were making millions of attempted exploits every minute, and a technology correspondent reported that 32 government sites, including the Office for Budget Responsibility, were down. The sites had not been hacked but were taking time to upgrade PHP and apply a patch, while the vulnerability was described as critical and the National Cyber Security Centre was said to have called the situation unprecedented. The report also examined AI's role in finding vulnerabilities and the difficulties smaller organisations faced in patching systems.

Ahead of the King's Caribbean tour next week, the Commonwealth Secretary-General told Sky News that an apology from the King for the wrongs of the transatlantic slave trade would not hurt and that countries had asked for one. She said the time had come for a conversation on reparations and their form. Guests debated the issue, with one arguing it was not appropriate to involve the constitutional monarch and that the government opposed reparations, while another noted that Britain had paid £20 million to slave owners, with payments completed in 2015, and questioned whether an apology without admission of guilt or cost would be meaningful; the discussion also raised questions about constitutional monarchy.