I don't really know what to do instead (just not my area), and obviously it just wouldn't be the problem it is if we'd returned to pre financial crisis growth,
but it feels really bad juju that people in 5 yrs younger in my exact financial and educational situation will be ~8-9% worse off than I am

To be fair, I 100% dont think people's voting patterns or views are monocausal. I just think this is underrated in the wider "cost of living discussion" and discussion of young people

I think this misses the point of my tweet

I meant see the conversation happen

This is exactly what I mean by radicalising

I reckon we'll see it happen in the next decade

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Ha!

I think that is the correct way to do it, yes

Posted all this forgetting you're charged 3pp more interest if you earn over £50k!

Couple all that with credentialism for jobs that didn't need it 20 years ago and it's a heady mix

It's psychologically painful to make payments and not have debt go down.

And the worse the interest rate gets the better the deal those few that had parents pay their fees gets. Radicalising!

5) Human Acts- Han Kang (🇰🇷 South Korea)

My second of hers. Harrowing. There's so much pain and brutality in the world

Sure you might toy with bands like Animal Collective in the interim years between teenagedom and growing up, but when did you last listen to Animal Collective?

4) Disgrace - JM Coetzee (🇿🇦 South Africa)

Incredible book. Shades of houellebecq and Bonfire of the Vanities in depicting decay of a society. V politically ambiguous. Love that it starts out a very typical male literary novel (a lecturer has slept with a student?!) and becomes soooo much more

3) Going Nuclear - Tim Gregory

Come for the expected chat about nuclear power, stay fit true fascinating chapters on medicine and space

2) The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe- CS Lewis

So much discourse about this in recent years (especially Edmund and the Turkish Delight), but the real test of children's literature is if it captures the mind of a child. My 5 year old was rapt, especially during Aslans sacrifice and rebirth