Force published about 2,100 seized knife images in a year, which experts say could be counterproductiveYoung people may be nudged into carrying knives by the police, research has found, as a new count showed the Metropolitan police circulated more than…
Congress grills Facebook exec on Instagram’s harmful effect on children
Senators highlighted research revealed in the Wall Street Journal showing how the photo app could affect girls’ body image and self-esteemAntigone Davis, Facebook’s global head of safety, faced a grilling before the US Congress on Thursday in a hearing…
‘It took a year to get help’: generation Z on mental health decline
Technology and Covid lockdowns blamed for rise in eating disorders and insomnia among the youngIt was while browsing on social media at the age of 13 that Hannah realised she had an eating disorder. Seeing other girls and women talking about their expe…
Facebook pauses work on Instagram Kids after teen mental health concerns
Move follows WSJ revelations that Facebook-commissioned research showed Instagram could affect girls’ mental healthFacebook has halted work on its Instagram Kids project after revelations about the photo-sharing app’s impact on teen mental health.Insta…
Guardian angel: a Hackney hero takes his team bowling
In our new column, in which we make nice things happen for nice people, we meet Marvin Birch, who turned his life around – and now spreads the community loveMarvin Birch has lived on the Kingsmead estate in Hackney his entire life. It’s never had a goo…
Eat the rich! Why millennials and generation Z have turned their backs on capitalism
Nearly eight out of 10 of young Britons blame capitalism for the housing crisis and two-thirds want to live under a socialist economic system. How did that happen?The young are hungry and the rich are on the menu. This delicacy first appeared in the 18…
Teenage girls, body image and Instagram’s ‘perfect storm’
The suffering of the photo-sharing app’s users came into focus this week with the leak of Facebook’s internal research‘I felt my body wasn’t good enough’Emily started using Instagram when she was in her mid-teens and found it helpful at first. She used…
Youth services in England and Wales ‘face being decimated’
Calls for more funding and 50,000 new workers and volunteers to meet steep rise in demand during CovidYouth leaders are calling for the recruitment of an additional 50,000 youth workers and volunteers to meet a tripling in levels of need during the pan…
Bean bandits: why teenagers are throwing baked beans at people’s houses
Egging is old hat. Now the trend is for ‘beaning’ – and it has become so prevalent that the police have decided to wade inName: Beaning.Age: About a month old. Continue reading…
Emma Raducanu is about to discover that famous teenage girls can’t win | Laura Snapes
Petrifying young women still in the earliest stages of working out who they might become stymies their potential for growthAccording to the commentators, Emma Raducanu’s triumph at the US Open is just the start. She has been hailed as a sporting saviou…