Sometimes, even when he s asleep, you can go in and he s still holding the phone and it s still playing a tiktok video or something. A few miles away, 13 year old keah is also rarely off her phone. When i m not at school, i probably use it, like, a lot. Like, most of the day. She scrolls through dozens of videos an hour and chats to friends and family around the country. Sometimes, i stay up all night, maybe until about, like, 5am, watching tiktok or playing games or watching netflix or anything like that. I just scroll and scroll and scroll. It s terrible. Sometimes, i ll go to my sister s and the family will meet there and she ll just go upstairs and be on her phone. And that s the time when i feel like i would like her tojust put the phone down and have her family time. Many of us are obsessed with our smartphones but what s the impact on our kids? from looking at keah and josh s social media feeds, they re not seeing anything that s too bad. But as the bbc s disinformation and soci
Across london, to dismaland, we explore the art, the man and the tactics. He is the picasso of the 21st century. He s prolific, he s profound. This is banksy: the mystery. A quiet monday morning in london in the summer of 2024, and there it appeared a stencilled mountain goat precariously perched on a ledge in richmond, west london. In quick succession, more artworks appeared. Monkeys hanging from a railway bridge. Two elephants lovingly reaching for each other s long trunks from opposite windows. Again, banksy had managed to get all of us talking and wondering what this new animal trail across london was all about. What s the message behind these new pieces? i own the canvas of this. This isjust a poster from when it was in the museum, in moco in amsterdam. Well, john brandler knows a thing or two about banksy. Oh, i think the animal trail is very clever. The police booth in london looking like a fish tank phenomenal, brilliant. What s scary about that is this is part of what is s
And it feels like everything is kind of changing again, because we ve just passed the bank holiday weekend they call labor day here in america, and that is always a signifier in an election year that it s now gearing up properly. There s a lot of people who, frankly, don t have the time or interest to pay any attention to politics over the summer holidays. But now that you know, there s an autumn chill in the air, that back to school feeling everywhere, this is typically when people start tuning in and paying some attention to politics. So it s almost as though the election actually starts this week, marianna, if you can believe it. It started months ago for us. But for many voters, it starts now. Yeah, i know. We slightly envy the people for whom it starts now, or the people for whom it starts even later. And actually, speaking about big stuff that s coming up, we ve obviously got this presidential debate that s happening next week, isn t it, sarah? i guess that will feel like a momen