Anthem for doomed youth

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Ed Howker and Shiv Malik’s Jilted Generation is reviewed in this week’s Spectator.

‘For Ed Howker and Shiv Malik, authors of Jilted Generation, British youth now face the most uncertain future since the 1930s. Identifying the eponymous generation as those born after 1979 — the first UK school year to pay university tuition fees — the authors argue that a country where the young have lost out even during the giddiest boom in living memory has effectively auto- cannibalised.’

‘Short-term politics leads to long-term strategic errors and until the custodian, rather than quotidian, becomes a viable style of government in the UK, books like Jilted Generation will be written for generations to come.’

Read more here – and remember that you can read the book in full for free on your mobile phone – just text JILTED to 60300.