Are Young Men in Crisis?
Newscast
BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Today, we look at the challenges being faced by young men and boys after the former England manager Sir Gareth Southgate said he fears they are spending too much time gaming, gambling and watching pornography.
James and Alex are joined by Ed Davies, Policy Director of the think tank the Centre for Social Justice, and Ceylon Andi Hickman, director at Football Beyond Borders.
They discuss what’s driving the problem, which Southgate and the Centre for Social Justice says is a ‘crisis’.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.9 | So yesterday we were reading all day, and today we've been watching telly all day. |
| 0:10.6 | Well, speak for yourself. I've also read a 70-page report. |
| 0:13.8 | That is true. You are clutching a whole report of highlighted with notes, which is putting me to shame a bit. |
| 0:19.3 | But we have been watching a lot of television, |
| 0:22.1 | and among the television we've been watching, |
| 0:25.1 | a lecture, the Richard Dimbleby Lecturer, |
| 0:27.6 | it's called, by the former England manager Sir Gareth Southgate, |
| 0:31.1 | in which he talks about young men |
| 0:33.4 | and his concerns for young men, which will come on to. |
| 0:36.3 | I haven't watched adolescence. I have. |
| 0:39.3 | This is the Netflix drama, but I just must clarify, I did watch that at my own time, |
| 0:43.3 | not on work time, so I haven't been spending my working day sitting there watching Netflix. |
| 0:47.2 | But you have spent your working day watching Prime Minister's questions, which actually, |
| 0:50.7 | full disclosure, I did not watch today for I was busy reading this report. |
| 0:54.5 | Yeah, and to bring it full circle, during that, Sekeh Stama was talking about what he's been watching on TV. |
| 1:00.3 | This is what he said. |
| 1:01.5 | At home, we are watching adolescents with our children. |
| 1:04.0 | I've got a 16-year-old boy and a 14-year-old girl, and it's a very, very good documentary to watch or drama. |
| 1:13.6 | This violence carried out by young men influenced by what they see online is a real problem. |
| 1:20.3 | It's abhorrent. |
| 1:21.5 | I haven't watched it, but as I understand it, it's about a 13-year-old, a schoolboy who's arrested. |
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