Richard Hogan: A primary school child has no business with a smartphone

The minute a child gets a smartphone they will disappear into them. Not phoning anyone, but connected to Snapchat, TikTok, Instagram, Discord etc. The child that once played, or sat downstairs and chatted with you, will now be up in their bedroom alone, illuminated by blue light and connected to everything the world has to offer; good, bad, and the very ugly

Richard Hogan: It is great to see the initiatives been rolled out by schools. We need every school onboard, so children are free to concentrate and socialise in schools. lunch time would be noisy once again. I was in a school recently and the principal said to me, once they banned phones in school, the school burst into life again.

Christmas is upon us again.

Houses are being decorated and a wintry moon hangs over chimney tops. Christmas FM will soon be belting out festive songs and snow (or rain) might fall.