Joe Pike
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1,291 appearances
16 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 6 Sep
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Discipline's such your thing.
Yes, I mean, I would bet a fiver on it.
We're expecting, I think actually, the Prime Minister's going to pop up tomorrow morning to try to make maximum impact with this announcement.
What we expect, and it's not completely confirmed, but we've got all sorts of indications and including Lisa Nandy didn't really shy away from this at all on the telly this morning.
What I expect is that there will be a social media ban for under 16s on quite a few of the big platforms.
So your TikTok, Snapchat, however, some platforms I think will be exempt.
I think there's also going to be a kind of curfew or time limit also for teenagers.
So there's a huge debate, though, about whether or not this is really effective, if these are the right kinds of measures.
The evidence from the ban in Australia has been mixed.
There's a lot of evidence of kids being able to get round it.
What Lisa Nandy said to us this morning is what the ban could institute is kind of cultural change.
So you make it kind of, you know, socially unacceptable, not a thing that young teenagers should be doing.
But there are really strong views on this and campaigners also are split on this.
But there are quite a few people, including Ian Russell, who's been one of the leading campaigners on this for years for all the wrong reasons, because his daughter took her own life, having been bombarded with distressing material online.
But Ian told us yesterday he's really angry because he suspects that the prime minister is doing this for political reasons, which, of course, Downing Street denies.
And that they're rushing towards a sort of blanket ban rather than something tougher, more sophisticated and more nuanced.
So we'll see how this all evolves tomorrow.
Yeah, very strongly.
That's right.
And I think what ministers support over this, and certainly what opposition parties, where the Tories have been campaigning on this for a long time,
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