“If it isn’t working, change it, fix it, do it better” Actress Kate Winslet says more should be done to help families with the cost of living after she donated to a woman struggling with energy bills
By Laura Kuenssberg"My God, I don't know what I'm supposed to do at all." That's not an admission that you expect to hear from a movie megastar.
The drama - I am Ruth - is hard to watch, but hard to look away from. Without giving a terrible spoiler, it does also in the end offer hope. She suggests some online platforms should be banned for kids and accuses the government and tech firms of "shirking responsibility"."Whoever those people are, they know who they are, they should just step up and do better," she told me.The UK was going to be the first country in the world to try and solve this problem but there have been so many delays the EU got there first.
That climate soured some time ago. As one senior tech executive described it: "After tech euphoria now the pendulum has swung completely the other way."
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