How Big Tech made us screen addicts
Gaia Bernstein’s Unwired argues that smart devices are engineered to keep our children hooked. Can we hold the industry to…
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Is the BMA silencing striking junior doctors?
Medics on picket lines are declining interviews and telling journalists that only union reps can speak.
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Social media is taking a dangerous toll on teenage girls
The evidence is now clear: smartphones are the major cause of the mental illness epidemic among young women.
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My elderly mother, in hospital with a broken pelvis, is scandalising the staff
“What are you going to ask me about now?” said my mother to the nurse assessing her. “My sex life?”
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The Newsnight journalist on her book Time to Think, and why she had to tell the story of the children…
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Joan Bakewell’s Diary: living with cancer, and the age of the grandparent
Medical progress is making us live longer – and grannies like me are being turned to for free childcare.
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