Luckily the government gave itself lots of powers months ago to implement (much of) whatever it decided using secondary legislation, which at least has very robust scrutiny mechanis…
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Think it's part of a broader problem in British politics which is this expectation that nothing bad should or will ever happen to people, which is an admirable and understandable view that parents have of their own children, but you can't run a flourishing society or an economy on that basis.
And that’s a wrap on GCSEs for N this season and on home ed for him forever (unless something goes drastically wrong with plan A of college next year!).
Down to one now…
The UK government has announced plans to introduce a social media ban for under-16s by spring 2027.
@profsanderlinden.bsky.social reacts to today's news, and measures it against the evidence we already have about social media restrictions.
Time for me to repeat one of my ‘sayings’.
If you try to solve a problem by passing a law, but people don’t obey the law, you now have two problems where you used to have one.
re the day's debate - I get that I was pretty precocious but I did move to an entirely different country where I didn't know anyone, by myself, at 17 years old, and I'm yet to regret it for even one moment, and I hate that we're apparently building a world where 17yos as seen as babies instead?
I'm sorry but I am just regularly very disturbed by how some adults talk about young people over the age of 16. (Or as they are in fact better known 'other adults'.)