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Social Media Ban Is Really About…

Aishwarya Rao

British Parents Discover Social Media Ban Is Really About Turning Teenagers Into Conversation Partners Again LONDON — Westminster confirmed this week that under-16s will be barred from TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat and YouTube by spring 2027, a policy parents across the country have greeted with the cautious optimism of a man defusing a bomb he built himself. For fifteen years, British households have run on a simple and elegant truce. The…

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Smartphones in London

Alan Nafzger

Smartphones in London: A Love Story Conducted Entirely at Arm’s Length 📱🇬🇧 Londoners have many defining traits: resilience, politeness sharpened into passive aggression, and the supernatural ability to ignore strangers in distress unless the distress is happening on a screen. The modern Londoner no longer walks through the city. They scroll through it. Below are some humorous observations, followed by a longer piece of satirical journalism, lovingly typed with one…