Are you an addict without even realising it? Smartphones, Twitter,
video games, emails, prescription drugs and even cupcakes are causing an unnerving shift in our natural behaviour, says Damian Thompson in our cover feature this week. In his new book, The Fix, Damian examines the ‘public health nuisance’ that is taking control of our lives. Damian also
speaks on this week’s View from 22 podcast about some of the stranger addictions he has encountered while researching his book:
James Forsyth also provides an insight into his interview with Nigel Farage — who was keener to go the pub than eat — and his offer to run joint UKIP-Tory candidates at the next general election. Fraser Nelson discusses ‘buying’ Olympics medals and why Eurovision is the superior entertainment event of the summer.‘Many of the people caught collecting dirty pictures think of themselves of collectors rather than as perverts. I cite the case of a catholic priest caught with unimaginable amounts of underage porn. He can not have looked at more than a small percentage of it. But what happened was the collecting urge, which is easily stimulated by digital urge, triggered obsessive compulsive impulses which many of us have.’
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The View from 22 – 24 May 2012. Length 24:59
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