Don’t let the young tune out and switch off

Challenge for government: To reach out to the young, our leaders need to remember that where once they were seen as cool because they were in the Opposition, they are now no longer so because of the simple fact that they are now the Establishment.

SINCE I’ve been back I have not been reading the news. Partly that is because I have so much work to do. But I have to admit that I am also very disinclined to read the news because, well, most of it is dreadful. There is absolutely nothing cheery about it, nothing that makes me feel that there’s light ahead or anything to look forward to.

In this, despite the age gap, I am not different from young people in the UK. According to a report in The Guardian recently, young people in Britain have almost entirely abandoned television news broadcasts while half the country gets its news from social media.