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Dame Esther Rantzen has insisted that teenagers do need smartphones because the internet is “where children are”.

Schoolchildren should be given “brick” phones instead of smartphones to protect them from social media, Sophie Winkleman has said.

“Everyone talks about the House of Lords and the need for reform. The House of Lords is actually working perfectly well and doing a great job. The bit of Parliament that is broken is the House of Commons. It’s simply no longer doing its job of revising legislation.”

On the latest Planet Normal podcast, which you can listen to using the audio player above, columnists Liam Halligan and Allison Pearson discuss the rising immigration figures and how it could impact the British public.

As Sir Simon Clarke calls for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to resign the pressure is on the Conservative Party to get its house in order ahead of the looming General Election. So, should he stay or should he go?

It’s one thing to alienate the floating voter, but they’ve been acting like they were their natural supporters’ own worst enemy

Fujitsu bosses were involved in a “conspiracy” of silence to cover up “shortcomings” with its defective Horizon IT system at the heart of the Post Office scandal, a whistleblower has claimed.

A YouGov poll splashed across Monday’s front page foresees a shocking electoral wipeout for the Conservatives on the scale of their 1997 defeat by Labour.

On the latest Planet Normal podcast, which you can listen to using the audio player above, columnists Liam Halligan and Allison Pearson are joined by Ben Habib who will be standing in the upcoming Wellingborough by-election about his politics, Brexit and Net Zero.

The co-pilots have diverted the rocket of right thinking for a short jingle break, but to keep you all sane over the festive period they have prised open the archives to revisit some of their biggest interviews.