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Hello and welcome to the Americano podcast, a series of discussions about American politics, power and prejudices.

It is 2025 and Donald Trump is president once again of the United States. We will, of course, be following the moves of the Donald and his second administration very closely. However, it won't just be politics

for us this year. We'll also talk a lot and cover American culture, life and the arts.

I should also remind you, because my producer, Natasha Natasha will not let me hear the end of it,

that we are on Spectator TV.

So head to our YouTube channel to watch that.

Today I am delighted to be joined by Abigail Shrier, who is a columnist for the Wall Street

Journal, and the author of Bad Therapy, Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up, which is now available

in paperback in the United Kingdom. And Abigail, it comes at a very good time this paperback edition,

as did your hardback edition, I should say, but particularly at the moment because there's a rather

big debate looming in Britain about cutting spending on health and where we can do it. And one

area that politicians will not touch is mental health spending,

which is ballooning, particularly for children, the costs of mental health counselling and care

and therapy for children. They're all ballooning, and there's nothing the government seems able

or willing to do about it.

Your book rather suggests that we're actually making that problem worse by putting so much emphasis on it, does it not?

Yes, that's right.

I mean, if you look across the West, it's not just the UK.

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