Branding young unemployed people as feckless welfare scroungers is both inaccurate and counterproductive, says ERNIE JACQUES. This simplistic perspective reframes a complex macroeconomic challenge as an individual failing. ‘Tackling the NEETs crisis will require long-term, specific and systemic change.’...
The Lost Hope of ‘The Mighty Micro’
It is more than 40 years since a radical TV series pointed the way to a more humane, computer-based society. CHRIS OLEWICZ wonders why today’s Tory government is still resisting the true potential of new technology to transform our working lives....