This is incredibly important, and I wish the smartphone-free movement would talk more about it. We cannot shut off one valve of expression for young people without allowing them more freedom.

Next time someone complains about "youths" congregating in your area, reply with delight not consternation.

Neurodivergent children are not a homogenous lump, all with the same condition, "benefitting from social media". Many ND kids are particularly at risk from SM. If your dopamine receptors are under-stimulated, how do you cope with a dopamine machine?

This. They are threatened by diversity or anyone who doesn’t conform to their idea of “normal”, so they try to find “cures” to make everyone reassuringly the same.

There’s no one answer to this but making it easier for kids to be active outdoors, particularly as part of daily routines, can play a big role in supporting healthier lives. Child-friendly streets that support doorstep play and safe, attractive walking & cycling routes to school are a priority.

Genuinely, I have this thought about eight times per day.

Think my new provocative bit might be saying "if you want to give young people something to belong to, middle aged men need to get off their phones and start running stuff in their community".

Currently in Canada reporting on a conference and never in all my years as a trade journalist have I seen so many corporate types breaking the fourth wall with their righteous anger

(although, as these are Canadians after all, it’s delivered with steely cheeriness)

Half way through s1 of Severance and I am desperate for the story not to shift focus on to what Lumen is actually doing and thereby negate the sinister pointlessness of it all. Hold the line lads.

Great piece by my colleague Leigh Collins on why you should care that a Chinese hydrogen-powered drone flew 30 hours without the need to refuel

www.hydrogeninsight.com/innovation/a...

And it obscures the real scandal - which is the totally inadequate child services support for kids post exclusion, the disaster of CAMHS, and the shocking lack of AP places (and in many places AP quality). Schools have a right to exclude - but excluded kids still have a right to an education.

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I'm often critical of the British lobby but when Cummings tried this stunt against left wing outlets the whole lobby boycotted until they backed down. The US press are pathetic.

These stories amount to "the left was so annoying about pronouns or liberals made people feel so guilty about plastic straws they had no choice but to get on board with the second coming of the Third Reich and the destruction of the planet."