Friday news! We're launching the advisory panel for @ippr.org's Decade of National Renewal today. An incredible group of thinkers to keep us in line as we do some creative thinking about what the left should stand for in an increasingly uncertain world. Find out more 👉 www.ippr.org/research-and...

We’ve always worried about addictive new tech and children. In 1868, Francis Paget wrote that sensational novels were like opium; in 1941, doctor Mary Preston found that half of the children she researched were addicted to radio and TV crime dramas and consumed them ‘like an alcoholic does drink’.