238. Question Time: Liz Truss, climate change deniers, and why print media is so polarised

The Rest Is Politics

Goalhanger

News, Politics, Government

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🗓️ 17 April 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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What actions can government take to mitigate the impact of smartphones on the mental health of children? What are the advantages and disadvantages of voting for an independent Mayor? With all eyes focused on the Middle East, what is important but flying under the radar this week? Rory and Alastair answer all these questions and more in this week's Question Time. TRIP Plus: Become a member of The Rest Is Politics Plus to support the podcast, receive our exclusive newsletter, enjoy ad-free listening to both TRIP and Leading, benefit from discount book prices on titles mentioned on the pod, join our Discord chatroom, and receive early access to live show tickets and Question Time episodes. Just head to therestispolitics.com to sign up, or start a free trial today on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/therestispolitics. TRIP ELECTION TOUR: To buy tickets for our October Election Tour, just head to www.therestispolitics.com Instagram: @restispolitics Twitter: @RestIsPolitics Email: restispolitics@gmail.com Producers: Dom Johnson + Nicole Maslen Assistant Producer: Fiona Douglas Exec Producers: Tony Pastor + Jack Davenport Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:10.9	that's the rest is politics.com. Welcome. Welcome to the rest of this politics question time with me Rory Stewart and me
0:25.4	a scandal so where do you want to start a worry well I want to start the question from
0:28.9	Henry Swansea what actions would you like to see this or the next government taking to mitigate the terrifying impact that smartphones of having on the mental health of children in this country and across the world?
0:40.0	This is a really controversial thing. As you can imagine, smartphone
0:44.8	manufacturers and people in the tech industry are absolutely falling over
0:48.2	backwards to give congressional testimony saying there's no evidence at all
0:51.7	that spending a lot of time on smartphones
0:54.0	has effect on mental health. But there are a lot of mental health professionals
0:58.3	and academics who are bringing together what seems to be increasingly convincing evidence that there's a direct relationship
1:05.2	between the amount of time that people spend on smartphones, particularly social media,
1:09.3	and real instances of depression, anxiety, many issues amongst young people.
1:18.0	And it then brings us to the question of legislation.
1:21.0	China, China's cyberspace administration has proposed limiting children's
1:25.3	smartphone use to two hours a day and I guess being China they could probably
1:30.2	get the manufacturers to put limits on those phones to make sure that that happened.
1:35.0	12 states in the US have been looking at this.
1:39.0	UNESCO has been looking at this.
1:41.0	We've had stuff in the UK which I strongly support and I cannot
1:46.0	understand why it's controversial. I keep getting attacked on Twitter whenever I suggest it.
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