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UK's Social Media Obsession – Is it Affecting Our Kids’ Mental Health ?

    Social Media and Mental Well-Being The large increase in mental health referrals in the UK's younger age groups since the end of the pandemic has finally got the UK government worried…so it should, and not before time. Why ? Apart from the more obvious consequneces of excessive screen use, which we'll conider shortly, we have at least 1 million young people in UK classified as ‘NEETs’ (i.e. Not in Education, Employment or Training); this is a shocking indictment for any 1st world society, particularly one that prides itself on its sense of 'fair play', and is still the 6th richest in the world, despite recent economic mismanagement by successive governments.  A significant proportion of these NEETs are likely to be in this category because of mental health issues. More and more of our youngsters, including even some under 5s, are also being diagnosed with some form of mental health issue, and not all of this is likely to be due to the 'over-diagnosis'...
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Accessing Online Magazines and Newspapers in UK for Free

  The world of online e-reading has become a confusing place over recent years, with a 'battle royal' raging between the publishing industry and internet users as more and more content goes online.  The industry are desperately trying to preserve their income streams in the face of increased online access to e-publications of all sorts which are outside their control, but the 'shadow' libraries are continually finding ways to outwit them..... It would seem obvious that a new publishing model is long overdue, with some alternative arrangement for internet access when a book is first published, and a better deal for struggling authors on whom we all depend for our fiction. Until the publishers accept this, and act accordingly, they will continue to lose ground; their business model will continue to struggle, and could eventually fail altogether. In an attempt to unravel some of the complexity of accessing reading material online while this battle continues, here is ...
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