http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Wed, 22 May 2013 14:48:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/14/let%e2%80%99s-not-kid-ourselves-that-%e2%80%98the-internet%e2%80%99-is-our-biggest-problem/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/14/let%e2%80%99s-not-kid-ourselves-that-%e2%80%98the-internet%e2%80%99-is-our-biggest-problem/#comments Thu, 14 Jun 2012 03:03:49 +0000 Sophie Warnes http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=25254 Much has been made of the righteous Channel Four News investigation into online game Habbo Hotel. A Channel Four producer signed up to the site describing herself as an eleven year old, and found that she was being inappropriately approached by people on the site. ]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/14/let%e2%80%99s-not-kid-ourselves-that-%e2%80%98the-internet%e2%80%99-is-our-biggest-problem/feed/ 42 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/07/the-debate-should-body-image-lessons-be-introduced-in-schools/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/07/the-debate-should-body-image-lessons-be-introduced-in-schools/#comments Thu, 07 Jun 2012 02:00:57 +0000 Laura Davis http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=24972 In response to the Reflections on Body Image report, MPs have recommended that school children take part in compulsory body image and self-esteem lessons. With girls as young as five now worrying about their appearance and cosmetic surgery rates increasing by nearly 20% since 2008, there are fears that young people have worrying and unrealistic perceptions [...]]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/07/the-debate-should-body-image-lessons-be-introduced-in-schools/feed/ 75