Perverse Future

On that note, Jenny, I recently read some interesting and revealing survey results.  The children's charity Kindred2 has found that only 44% of parents of children in reception at primary school believe that children should know how to use a book - by turning pages instead of swiping them - before starting school. Hope Not Hate found that 79% of boys aged 16 and 17 in the UK had consumed content by misogynistic hate-monger Andrew Tate. A survey in The Times reported that 40% of 15 - 18-year-olds say they are constantly distracted by their phones whilst trying to study for exams, and the average amount of time they can focus on revision before picking up their phones is 14 minutes.  And most revealingly, new research by BSI reveals that nearly 70% of 16 - 21-year-olds feel worse after using social media, and 47% of them not only support a 'digital curfew' and would prefer to be young in a world without the internet, but also wish the internet never existed at all.  I suppose those of us who were lucky enough to grow up without it and have only come to use it in later life have had the best of both worlds.  The young now will, very sadly, have no choice.  This is the world we've created for them.