It might have happened 10,000 miles away, but Australia’s ban on social media for under-16s has sparked new conversations in the UK about how we can better protect children from the harms of the inter

You may have already read what happened to my 13-year-old son Olly Stephens. On 3 January 2021, he left our family home in Reading, Berkshire, and wandered to a nearby field, just three minutes’ walk

SO AFTER ALL that, after the Sturm und ...

‘Is this your random fact of the day?’ I laughed, his excitement making me smile. ‘I’ve been reading about the hottest chilli pepper in the world,’ he grinned, then proceeded to tell me all about it.

Sitting in a restaurant in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, in September 2022, Lisa, then 50, and I looked like old friends having a catch-up. In fact, we’d met for the first time that day, two grieving mums disc

In 2022, Cory Doctorow coined a term to describe how the internet has decayed at the hands of tech giants, making the digital world a far worse place. His neologism, “enshittification”, was named the