Is technology making us lonely?



Ayesha Hazarika is joined by Will Tanner, former advisor to Theresa May and Director of Onward, and Resolution Foundation Director Torsten Bell, to discuss their under-reported stories of the week.

Will talked about the Government’s ‘Loneliness Strategy’ that launched on Monday, revealing 22% of UK adults considered themselves lonely, and 3.8 million over-65s consider the TV their main form of company. Torsten asked why few of us are talking about the Budget, which is next Monday.


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The panel also discuss their heroes of the week, Andrew Norfolk and Tessa Jowell, and villains, Angela Rayner and Anjem Choudary.