The kids are right, smartphones aren't all bad news

For years , we ignored teenagers and their unhindered access to unregulated platforms.

Now it’s become fashionably urgent, with one solution more popular than any: ban it all.

Jack Thorne , the writer behind the hit Netflix incel drama, Adolescence , backed the Smartphone Free Childhood group.

The UK youth parliament made up of 14-19 year-olds said these various plans are neither a practical nor effective” solutions to the growing problem of violence and misogyny among young people.