It’s official: young people aren’t snowflakes.

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Among the many significant findings in Alan Milburn’s review into so-called NEETs, the 16 to 24-year-olds not in employment, education or training, perhaps the most notable was his refusal to pin the blame on young people themselves.

In fact, he specifically rejected the claim that Gen Z are simply “softer, flakier, less resilient, more willing to blame mental health than actually suffer from it.”

Instead, he said “the shortage is of opportunity and of support.” Here, here!

I can’t tell you how refreshing it is to hear a baby boomer like Milburn refuse to indulge in the tired old trope that today’s young people are a bunch of oversensitive wet wipes.

On my LBC show, we focus a lot on issues of inter-generational unfairness. As a 33-year-old, it’s something I care about deeply, but my main concern is for the generation below me, especially those leaving school or university and attempting........

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