Politics can be a high wire act, and scotlands First Minister lost his footing today. If msps cant agree a successor to humza yousaf, scotland is heading for Scottish Parliament elections. And have smartphones and social media really led to a rise in teenage Mental Illness . Well be joined by the Snp Deputy Leader and ask his former Coalition Partner from the Scottish Greens, can they make up . And the leader of the scottish tories, and asking have his actions paved the way for labour gains and tory pain . Also tonight the play based childhood we have had for thousands of years basically ended around 2010. It was replaced by a phone based childhood. Thats the New York Times and sunday times best selling author whose new book argues that time spent on smartphones and social media is behind an epidemic of teenage Mental Illness. Well talk live to professor jonathan haidt, who says under 16s shouldnt have access to smartphones or social media. What he says is controversial. Plus, esther g
uk comic story of sunny spells around, and some longer spells of rain, particularly this morning across parts of wales and south west england as we start the day, heavy downpours through the middle towards the south east now, all working its way eastwards as we go through the day. using a little bit, turning lighter in southern parts, but midlands, wales come into northern england, we will see some heavy, thundery showers around through this afternoon. scotland and northern ireland by comparison, a little bit drier, just one or two showers. some places are staying dry all day long. wherever you are, a little cool for this stage, some places are staying around eight or nine celsius where the rain has fallen. this evening, some headed rain across parts of england, working its way to the east. confined to parts of east anglia and south east england by the end of the net. clear skies in the west, a particularly cold night, could be a frost around, not great news for gardeners or anybody he
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