Our overdiagnosis crisis
Amid a sharp rise in mental health conditions, critics say we have started to pathologise “ordinary human unhappiness”.
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To the young, everything is fresh and new
And I must admit: I envy them for it.
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Posh, privileged and fraudulent: meet the slangster
Why do well-off gents from Devon think they’re in Top Boy?
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The Research Brief: young people are too ill to work
Your weekly dose of policy thinking.
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I’m a child psychiatrist – the NHS crisis feels dangerous for those I work with
Long waiting times and cuts to community services have drastically reduced mental health support for young people.
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Is Gen Z the most conservative generation in history?
Why teens and twenty-somethings could fuel the next Tory revival.
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Scottish independence is not going away
Long-term demographic change means support for separation will outlast the SNP’s travails.
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Labour forgets that not everyone goes to university
The party’s focus on tuition fees neglects half of young people – and its past success with apprenticeships.
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Beware the midwit trap
Sometimes the simplest explanation is the best explanation.
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Can Bim Afolami solve the Tories’ millennial problem?
The Conservative MP on why his party hasn’t “got the deal right for younger people”.
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The uncomfortable secret of adulthood: friendship takes work
Once jobs and serious relationships are thrown into the mix, friendships stop being things that just happen to you.
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Millennials are breaking the oldest rule in the political book
They’re not turning Tory.
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Does turning 30 still matter?
We’re not supposed to care, but we do. Is it for a reason as awkward as women’s fertility?
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The levelling-up agenda has failed young people
Nine in ten under-25s consider being able to afford food aspirational – the government must start involving them in its…
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The Tories’ unpopularity among the young isn’t a woke conspiracy
It isn’t schools and universities that are pushing young people leftwards – it’s the housing crisis and student debt.
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Do the Tories understand how much young people hate them?
Yes, they do – and no, they are not going to do anything about it.
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Single-use vapes show we can’t rely on Gen Z to fix the climate crisis
We know that young people would like to live in a better world but they cannot stop being products of…
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We look to the young for a better future – but they are turning away from democracy
Hostility to democracy runs deep because the establishment has failed to uphold its side of the bargain.
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Why young people don’t like nights out any more
Rising prices has destroyed our hopes of post-Covid escapism.
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This is an age of stagnation, and young people are stuck in perpetual adolescence
We live in a gerontocracy, where the Conservatives pursue socialism for the old and capitalism for the young.
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