Calls for Netflix’s Adolescence to be shown in schools reveal the dire state of our national conversation, says Emma Revell

For years I have joked that reality TV may be the only way to get some people to understand the severity of the housing crisis. Find an over-confident Boomer who is still harping on about having double-digit interest on a mortgage they’ve long since paid off. Have them switch lives with a twenty-something living in a box room in Fulham and paying £2,000 a month for the privilege. Then see how long it takes them to crumble.

Turns out, I might be on to something.

In the 1970s a group of Conservative thinkers, including Margaret Thatcher, recognised that in order to address the critical issues facing Britain they needed to understand the complex and often unrecognised ways those issues were interconnected. Only once that had been mapped out could solutions be found that would actually work, rather than deliver superficial change.

That project became known as Stepping Stones and it went on to become the blueprint for the achievements of the Thatcher era –........

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