Jack Thorne, whose Netflix series has shone a light on incel culture, calls for restrictions on teens’ social media access

Smartphones should be treated like cigarettes and banned until the age of 16 in the UK, according to the writer of Adolescence, which explores the insidious influence of “incel-culture”.

Jack Thorne, whose Netflix show has started a national conversation about the danger of online spaces for teenagers, argued that algorithms used on social media platforms could quickly lead to “dark spaces”.