Libs Jump the Shark: Demo Party of Howard Dean, Daily Kos, MSNBC?

I ran across this opinion piece at RealClearPolitics.com. I thought it was a remarkable piece of insight, though I will bet that the analysand here, the liberal wing of the democratic party, objects. The expression...

Ecstasy - UK rejects advice to downgrade

A report by the UK Government's own Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs that concluded Ecstasy should be downgraded from a Class A illegal drug to Class B has been rejected by the home secretary Jacqui...

Rethink the value of college

Education is importantbut for some young peopleit could be economically [better to go to work first. q url="http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0129/p09s02-coop.html"]Today's economic downturn has blindsided a...

One in ten young people feel life is meaningless

12% of young people in Britain feel life is not worth living according to a report published by the Prince's Trust. That's more than 1 in 10 of UK children. 47% of young people said that they were regularly...

Boozy Britain's bloody New Year: A 999 call every seven second...

British culture. When it comes to youth culture youth sometimes gets a bad press. Most young people are actually and self-evidently good but the media often chooses to run endless stories on anti-social, binge...

Anti-drink ads 'waste millions'

UK youth culture has drink at its heart and according to a new report from Birmingham University Business School the Government's failure to understand this has meant that its anti-booze ads miss the mark. The...

Student Voice In Britain

Stephen Canning attended a recent meeting of the Department for Children, Schools and Families along with Ed Balls (previously Secretary of State for Education) and Directors of the Education Department. Stephen...

Digital divide between young and old on online privacy

A new study out of Canada's Ryerson University, The Next Digital Divide: Online Social Network Privacy, has found that young people believe that personal information posted online remains relatively private, while older generations consider all information posted online to be...

Celtic League - promoting an agenda for young people in Scotland and Wales

This item courtesy of the Celtic League: The General Secretary (GS) of the Celtic League has written to theScottish and Welsh Government's to ascertain what the position inthese respective countries is with...

Greece's lost generation

To look at the cafes full of young people sipping four euro coffees it would be easy to imagine that young Greeks have little to trouble them apart from the normal cares of exams, relationships and ...

Neglecting our Young People: the scourge of gun, knife and violent crime

Claudia Webbe argues that the police's response to recent gun and knife crimes does nothing to combat the pressures that lead young people to carry weapons in the first place

Neglecting our Young People: the scourge of gun, knife and violent crime

Claudia Webbe argues that the police's response to recent gun and knife crimes does nothing to combat the pressures that lead young people to carry weapons in the first place

Neglecting our Young People: the scourge of gun, knife and violent crime

Claudia Webbe argues that the police's response to recent gun and knife crimes does nothing to combat the pressures that lead young people to carry weapons in the first place

A Crisis of Leadership

Calls to increase stop and search to tackle gun, knife and violent crime would only lead to further unjust victimisation.

Making it Safe to Talk

We have to wake up to the reality that victims and perpetrators of knife and gun violence are getting younger and younger, a growing minority of our children are operating like disorganised, glorified "urban soldiers" without fear or rationale. Huge numbers of our...

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