Allison Pearson, self-described “libertarian at heart,” writes a surprisingly impassioned defense of the U.K.’s proposed smartphone ban for kids.

Something deeply sinister has happened to childhood in the last decade and a half, and anyone who denies it is simply not paying attention. Or they have never tried to wrestle an iPad off a demonically possessed nine-year-old. I have and it’s awful. After three hours on a screen, the sweetest kid is wired, agitated and voracious for more, a Jekyll unleashing his internet........

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