Young people eat out, often several times a week – my fiancée and I could only afford to eat out once a month at most. They are also better paid, absolutely and relatively.
George Osborne made a bogeyman of buy-to-let landlords, but making it harder and more expensive to supply rental housing is deeply counter-productive.
The Right’s retreat from academia and colleges means students are being indoctrinated with the stale orthodoxies of lefty liberalism.
A new report published by drug policy think tank Volteface sets out how the current policy has given rise to a multi-billion pound black market for an exceptionally problematic product.
My TV omnipresence. After The News. Two wheezes from the Chancellor. Will he be fired in a reshuffle? Oh, and p.s: it could take place on Monday.
There’s a place for having a go at Corbyn – how could we not when so much of what he says is so indefensible? – but it has to be combined with our plan for a better life.
The youth vote is not one homogenous lump: more than half of school leavers won’t go to university, and won’t benefit from more generous student loan terms.
Targeting stamp duty and tuition fees could be less effective than technical education and the right industrial policy.
Developers and planners will also have to accept difficult changes if the aspirations of the young are to be fulfilled.
Pride in British history and institutions is an essential source of social cohesion in an increasingly diverse society.
We need to look at the write-off threshold more than the repayment threshold or bottom line fees to make a difference that young graduates can relate to.
The Prime Minister must explain today how reforming the system will deliver more gains for workers and familes than tearing it up.
The prime objective is to get more houses built – copying Labour’s attacks on foreign investors would make matters worse.
The second in a three-part series of contributions from the ‘New Blue Book’.
Our take is that what matters to students at least as much as their finances in the future is their finances now. Miinisters should mull a universal maintenance loan.