Emily Ford, a student at King’s College London, is currently working for our sister organisation in Germany, the Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations. She voted Remain in the Referendum, and follows the developments about Brexit carefully, all the while hoping for a measured and sustainable solution. Here she summarises the main arguments and… Read more »
Was Budget 2018 good news for Millennials?
David Kingman looks at what the Chancellor’s 2018 Budget speech could mean for young adults
What should the BBC do about the free licence fee for the over-75s?
David Kingman provides an overview of a key decision facing the BBC in the near future – which could have big implications for intergenerational fairness
Knife crime and government cuts to youth services
Knife crime cannot be written off a merely a symptom of gang culture, writes Sylvie Markes: it reflects a deeper and broader societal malaise which austerity cuts have exacerbated. But government policy can make a difference
Why are young adults feeling lonelier?
To mark the launch of the UK government’s first ever loneliness strategy, David Kingman looks at the growing amount of evidence which suggests that young adults are at disproportionate risk of feeling lonely
Half of young adults have no savings, ONS data reveal
David Kingman looks at some new data from the ONS on the level of household saving among young adults
Democratic satisfaction among Britain’s immigrant communities: intergenerational divides
IF’s Rakib Ehsan looks at political-institutional trust and democratic satisfaction among Britain’s ethnic minority population, discussing why first-generation migrants display greater political trust and democratic satisfaction than their younger, UK-born counterparts
What’s happened to life expectancy in the UK?
David Kingman unpacks the latest data on trends in life expectancy from the Office for National Statistics (ONS)
More households – but is more housing the only solution?
IF researcher Holly Metcalf looks at the complexities of housing supply against the prediction of a growth in the number of households – a situation that calls for carefully-tailored government action
Is it worth doing a degree? It’s complicated…
David Kingman looks at the evidence surrounding whether doing a degree is worthwhile for a young person
