More than a third of young people feel their life is spiralling out of control following the pandemic, according to findings released to the Guardian ahead of a nationwide campaign that highlights the impact of years of restrictions on the younger generation. Here’s an excerpt from the newspaper’s report – though it being the Guardian, it’s always “Covid” or “the pandemic” that is to blame rather than lockdowns or restrictions.
The Prince’s Trust Class of Covid research also found that more than 60% of 16-25-year-olds said they were scared about their generation’s future, having lived through a pandemic only to face a cost-of-living crisis. One in three think their job prospects will never recover from the pandemic…
There is also evidence of widespread “retarded development” among young people as a result of missing developmental milestones during the pandemic, according to findings from the Savanta State of the Youth Nation report.
The report found that almost a quarter of 16-19-year-olds missed out on having their first kiss because of Covid. For those aged 20 to 25, the figure was was 17%.
A significant number also missed out on starting their first romantic relationship, with one in five of those aged 16 to 19 and 15% of those aged 20 to 25 not having a relationship when compared with the experiences of people of the same age before the pandemic.
The research by Savanta, a youth research specialist that runs the country’s largest youth research panel, has asked more than 1,000 young people the same set of questions for the past seven years…
Almost 60% of young people who lived alone during the pandemic told researchers they now lacked the confidence to make up their own minds, compared with 40% before the pandemic.
For those who lived with their parents during the pandemic, the dip in confidence was significantly less marked, with 47% saying they could make up their own minds, compared with 52% before the pandemic.
The report also found that young people who experienced disruptions in starting work or who had to work online were confused about what to expect from the world of work. Before the pandemic, 68% of young people felt work was what they expected. Post-pandemic, the figure has fallen to 49%.
The research also shows young people are less confident about performing tasks at work. The proportion of those who feel able to focus on one task for a sustained period fell from 55% pre-pandemic to 39% post-pandemic.
Having the confidence to have conversations with management is another area where young people struggle, with 21% feeling able to talk to senior people at work compared with 37% before the pandemic.
The newspaper has also run a feature headed “‘We gave up so much’: how Covid changed young people’s lives” with a number of awful stories of lost youth, including this one from 20 year-old Eoin O’Loughlin, who moved from Dublin to Dundee during the pandemic to study at the Scottish School for Contemporary Dance.
I think my generation gave up a lot during the pandemic for older people because it hit at such a key, developmental time for us. We were happy to do it at the time but problems have come since because the government hasn’t acknowledged what we sacrificed. Some recognition and some recompense would help, in terms of support for the issues – around careers, education, mental health, physical health – that my generation suffered and still suffers as a direct result of pandemic policies introduced to protect the older generation.
The sad thing is that we gave so much up because we had a sense of community. But because there’s been no recognition of what we gave up or any attempt to recompense us, I think that sense of community has been burnt out of us. I’m not sure that my generation would be as happy or willing to sacrifice ourselves for other people a second time. I think we all feel our goodwill was taken advantage of.
The pandemic was dreadful for me. It stunted me at the exact moment I was ready to burst out creatively and socially, and start exploring and making my mark on the world. The pandemic meant that I had to adapt from being a child to an adult with no transition period – I missed my secondary school exams and graduation, along with my 18th and 19th birthdays. I then missed my first year of college in Dundee – and doing a dance degree at home, in front of a laptop screen is no fun at all.
I feel I’ve lost my younger self in the pandemic. I’ve lost that youthful exuberance and joyfulness I once had. I feel like an old man: even though lockdown is over, I just want to stay in now – read a book and drink some tea.
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Isn’t the most obvious recent example that racist, far-left piece of filth Ricky Jones who called for white people to have their throats slit for daring to be outraged over the slaughter of three little girls? That’s a good test for the ‘impartial’ system surely?
Yes, and the female Ethnic Indian Sikh Jaswant Narwal, chief crown prosecutor for CPS London North, bizarrely decided not to charge the Far Left Ethnic African with “encouraging mass murder” of Indigenous British People, but only with “encouraging violent disorder”, to ensure that he will receive a more lenient sentence, as if he were only telling people to brandish pieces of wood, like the British pensioner given three years in prison.
Oh dear.——Asking for throats to be slit is apparently not as serious as pointing out where all the migrant hotels are.
Sadly you overlook the behaviour of the Left and Far Left recently.
Remember all of them who took to the streets over the past months about Gaza.
Instead of bringing messages of peace and how to end the conflict they promoted genocide of Israelis ‘from the river to the sea’ which is also racist and antisemitic.
The hypocrisy is not all. These are criminal offences and hate crimes but the police have done nothing – two tier Kier – two tier policing.
The Left and Far Left did the same on the basis of fake false flag 100 alleged Far Right demonstrations – which no one to date has established the origin of and which never took place and could never have taken place because no Far Right people or organisations have been identified which could have taken part.
There is loads of video – so the police could still do something about the behaviour of the Left and Far Left over the past year and enforce the law without fear or favour against the Left and Far Left criminals.
Thanks to Toby Young for providing a summary of that paywalled Telegraph article (the Telegraph soon to be taken over by Iraqi Muslim Zahawi), which reflects the sense of appallingly harsh injustice being meted out to over 900 British People, some as young as 12 years old, for protesting against Mass Third World Immigration, or even posting an emoji, while Armed Muslim Gangs are allowed to rampage through Britain’s streets at will, with Zero Arrests. Have the Pakistani Muslims who attacked police at the airport even been charged?
Perhaps we should not be surprised, considering that Marxist Starmer appointed a Pakistani Muslim woman as UK Justice Minister. We remember how that worked out with Pakistani Muslim Hunza as Justice Minister in Scotland, shoving Disguised Sharia Law through the Scottish parliament.
News today said that Italian Closet Globalist Meloni now wants to snuggle up to Starmer as she did with Sunak, but in reality all trying to drag Britain back into the EUSSR:
Starmer and Meloni plot overhaul of Europe-wide police force to tackle illegal migration (msn.com)
Powerful comment
Thank you, Varmint, for that encouragement, which is an extremely rare thing for me on here.
Eh well I cannot remember if I have disagreed with you on some things. Maybe I have. Maybe some other people have as well, but credit where it is due.
Don’t forget Clive Lewis. Apparently young women are ”far right fascists” for speaking up about keeping women’s single-sex spaces for females only;
”Norwich South Labour MP Clive Lewis encouraged counter-protesters to ‘fight the fascists’ yesterday, encouraging violence against young students advocating for female only spaces.
This is incitement of violence.
If we were chanting this against the left, we would be in custody.
Why is Clive Lewis able to get away with this? @NorfolkPolice
any comment?
In 2017, Clive was cleared of Sexual Harassment after being accused of groping a woman at the Labour Annual Conference.
Nowadays, he encourages men to walk inside women’s facilities. If a woman feels uncomfortable with this, he sees HER as the problem, and NOT the man who has invaded her privacy.
His pal – Hugh Stanners – is a known violent extremist left activist in Norwich. He has been known to incite violence and cause criminal damage to property in the past. This behaviour is hardly surprising from him.
Could you just imagine the uproar if we were shouting ‘Fight The Transgenders?’ We would have been arrested on the spot. So many people didn’t speak yesterday because they feared getting arrested. So why can Clive Lewis and Hugh Stanners get away with this?
@NorfolkPolice
, after we moved away from them (under your guidance) in an attempt to disconnect their microphones from our speaker, you allowed them to walk closer to us. Why is that? We deserve and demand actions to your awful policing yesterday.
Why did you allow them to move closer to us whilst shouting ‘Fight the Fascists’”
https://x.com/JournoJones05/status/1822593242342289874
These are the so-called ‘fascists’ he’s referring to. How very dare girls and women expect to use female changing rooms/toilets and not have to worry about coming across penis-owners in there? How very discriminatory against perverts!
”Over the weekend my followers, James Harvey organised a Students Against Tyranny event in Norwich – Keep Female Spaces Female.
MP Clive @labourlewis
condemned it as “far-right”. He himself has been accused of anti-Semitism.
He has referred to a woman, “get down on your knees b*tch”.
https://x.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1822924215571435831
Haven’t we reached the stage where everybody is born a Far-Right fascist until they can prove otherwise and be granted the right to limited freedoms?
When everybody is Far Right or Fascist or Islamophobe – then nobody is.
And since police are reviewing past social media, will they also be reviewing Joe Brand’s broadcast comment about throwing acid at Nigel Farage instead of a milkshake?
And what about those who have said the riots and racism were caused by Nigel Farage, the result of which is he is now getting police protection arranged by the Home Office.
Two tier?
Could there be a better way of dealing with the disrespecters of the state than the sort of thing as in the courtroom scene in Ghostbusters 2?
Well this man has been sent down for merely sharing memes. He didn’t create them, he didn’t post any text, he just shared them. But this is the odious Facebook again and it should be avoided like the plague. This sounds like fifty shades of vanilla compared to what gets shared on Twitter. Zuckerberg would have kittens, including if he saw what we post on this site!
I expect all these people getting sent to jail are being advised by their lawyers to plead guilty so as to get a reduced sentence. It’s a bloody scam and they’ve got you over a barrel however you look at it because how can it ever be deemed proportionate to send somebody to prison for posting or resharing memes, FGS? And are they getting sent to category A prisons as well? Totally insane this is;
”A FIFTY-one-year-old Egremont man has become the latest person in the county to be jailed for posting racially aggravated online social media posts linked to national civil unrest.
Sellafield worker Lee Joseph Dunn, of Church Street, appeared at Carlisle Magistrates’ Court this afternoon (Monday).
Dunn pleaded guilty to one offence. He admitted sending, by means of a public electronic communications network, a message that was grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character.
His crime occurred on July 30 and 31 and involved three shared Facebook posts.
Prosecutor George Shelley said Dunn had posted three separate images. The first one showed a group of men, Asian in appearance, at Egremont crab fair 2025, with the caption: “Coming to a town near you.”
The second also showed a group of men, Asian in appearance leaving a boat on to Whitehaven beach. This, said Mr Shelley, had the caption: “When it’s on your turf, then what?”
A final image showed a group of men, again Asian in appearance, wielding knives in front of the Palace of Westminster. There was also a crying white child in a Union flag T-shirt. This was also captioned, said Mr Shelley, with the wording: “Coming to a town near you.”
https://www.whitehavennews.co.uk/news/24513379.sellafield-worker-jailed-sharing-offensive-facebook-posts/
Sinister or what? ———I remember learning all about the Nazi Regime. I was learning history as by learning about it means hopefully people won’t repeat it. We are getting to the stage now where the Liberal Progressive Tyranny that is really about intolerance all in the name of tolerance will have us wearing a “far right” badge on our lapels, so we can be name called and screamed at by the leftist mob from their castles on top of the moral high ground. —-Instead of “Crystal Nacht” we may well have “Gans Rechts Nacht”.
Thanks are due to Richard Eldred for posting the link to that article about the Sellafield worker in the Cumberland News and Star, in today’s News Round-Up more than 15 hours ago. You will find it there, along with comments about it.
Starmer, the Pakistani Muslim woman he appointed as UK Justice Minister, and the judges eagerly throwing Indigenous Brits into prison without trial by jury, are forgetting this:
“Clause 39 of the Magna Carta of 1215, as translated from the original Latin, provides that:
No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled, or deprived of his standing in any other way, nor will we proceed with force against him, or send others to do so, except by the lawful judgement of his equals or by the law of the land.
This clause was included as Chapter 29 in the 1225 version of Magna Carta.
It is not Statute Law. It is COMMON LAW.
The English protesters against Mass Third World Immigration nobody voted for are being imprisoned by single judges, without Trial by Jury of their peers, or “the lawful judgement of their equals”, thereby violating their Common Law Rights under the Magna Carta.
Jeez quite incredible—–What a beadie eyed parasite Starmer is.
That’s a good description of him. I also think his eyes are strange and shrewd.
Probably all politicians and media people who endlessly brainwash people about the “Climate Crisis” causing easily manipulated dreamers to throw paint in Art Galleries, block roads, climb on buildings, spray paint banks and businesses etc etc should be jailed for inciting unnecessary disruption to ordinary people. ——-The term “Climate Crisis” is a political one not based on any empirical science designed to instil fear and causes certain types of people to behave irrationally.
I read all of Michael Deacon’s column yesterday, particularly the item on the Crown Prosecution Service consulting “Local Panels”. This STASI-like idea of anonymous people snitching on fellow citizens has caused a great deal of under-the-line comment in the Telegraph. It is quite simply outrageous that the CPS is collecting evidence from illegitimate sources. I hope the DS highlights this matter very soon.