With young people in Nepal using social media sites like Discord to organise protests, are we witnessing the South Asian Spring? How influential is Elon Musk in British politics following his message to the Unite the Kingdom protestors? And how did the Assad regime systematically steal hundreds of children from their families? 

Giles Whittell is joined by The Observer’s Patricia Clarke, Chloe Hadjimatheou and Stephen Armstrong, as they each try to pitch the top story of the day.

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Find the team’s must reads here:

• The crumbling seaside palaces at the centre of Britain’s asylum crisis
• You Might Have Already Fallen for MAHA’s Conspiracy Theories
• Grayson Perry: Delusions of Grandeur

Read more on today’s stories: 

• US cash turned Tommy Robinson into the poster boy of UK far right
• How a western charity helped the Syrian regime abduct children
• Prepare for revolution now, Elon Musk tells London rally as police come under attack

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