Stuff from the papers…

Sorry, I do keep meaning to write a blog post but I’ve been busy over the last few nights (admittedly some of it was watching The Apprentice!).

Anyway, both the Guardian and Independent appear to have done big features on “young people aren’t so bad” this week:

• Celebrations of our teens and The uplifting truth about Britain’s youth (Independent, Sunday)
• Young people special in Society Guardian on Wednesday

Also:

• Stewart Dakers on why compulsory national service is a bad idea (Guardian, Tuesday)
• And this, which is a year old but I only discovered today at work (I was doing some research on knife stats among young people, which for obvious reasons are difficult to confirm). If you read Speak Your Branes you probably end up wondering what the point of Have Your Say style comments on the bottom of news stories are. Well, I found the answer this morning. The top response on this article in the Telegraph, from Ruth Ray, is beautifully written and a brilliant assessment of what is happening to young people on our inner city estates.

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