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Getting played: gaming disorder
The WHO has now recognised the damage that addiction to computer games does as a disease — and thanks to ‘loot boxes’ the problem can also be financial, writes TOMASZ PIERSCIONEK
TUC Cymru’s programme offers a potential roadmap for co-operation between Labour and Plaid Cymru on jobs, services and economic democracy, says DAI MORGAN
HAZEL PRING and MAX DICKINSON introduce The Angry Summer Project, a fringe for the TUC Cymru Congress
Western accounts portray the Stasi as an agent of repression, but behind the stereotype, many East German security officers saw themselves as defenders of an anti-fascist socialist project under constant attack from the West, argues NICK WRIGHT
Blocked fertiliser exports and an extreme climate fluctuation may spell disaster for global food production, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
This week the Welsh trade union movement comes together in Llandudno for TUC Cymru congress to debate motions and consider priorities for the next two years. JESS TURNER sets the stage
ADDICTIONS have existed in their myriad forms for as long as humans have had cravings. As science develops and new technologies become embedded into our culture and lifestyles, so too will new virtues and vices emerge.
A new addiction is known as gaming disorder, a condition predominantly affecting children and young adults who grew up surrounded by the internet, computers and gaming consoles in all their various forms.
Some countries have introduced limits on the length of time under-18s are allowed to play video games. China limits children gaming to a maximum of three hours a week and no more than one hour at a time, in an attempt to curb what it refers to as the “spiritual opium” of gaming.
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