Monthly Archives: July 2016
What is a citizen?
- Posted by jennie
- Posted on July 28, 2016
- Millennials
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The debates around the EU referendum vote have revealed a clash of realities. This has been quite disconcerting. Conversations with friends, family members and colleagues who voted differently have invoked, not only differences of opinion, but often completely polarised understandings of the situation we now find ourselves in. This is summed up in the sentiment, […]
Theresa May, forget social justice – give us politics
- Posted by jennie
- Posted on July 25, 2016
- Politics and policy
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In the post-Brexit confusion, you can almost hear the gnashing of the policy-wonks’ teeth. Who are these people? What do they want? But it’s really not that complicated. People might want any number of things out of their lives – but when it comes to social policy, there are a few obvious places to start. […]
The generation wars
- Posted by jennie
- Posted on July 10, 2016
- Baby Boomers,Childhood and adulthood,Millennials
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‘I can’t wait to read it because it’s going to be sick and I’m in it, and then I can give it to my mum so she can stop fucking asking me what I’m thinking all the time.’ So said Kurt, 16, to the journalist Chloe Combi about her new book, Generation Z: Their Voices, Their […]
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