The Spectator’s latest debate – Stop Whining Young People: You’ve Never Had It So Good – was most disgracefully skewed in favour of the proposition. Not only did the epically relaxed moderator Toby Young flagrantly and self-confessedly side with the proposers but so too did the event sponsor, Alan Warner of Duncan Lawrie private banking.
Warner recalled, in his introductory speech, how very difficult it had been as a young man coming to terms with the fact that he would never be able to afford to live, like his parents’ generation, in Chelsea. Instead, he had to venture to the exotic reaches of the Angel, Islington and had to endure years of taunts on the lines of ‘Well I know where it is on the Monopoly board. It’s the last pale blue cheap one before you get to the jail’.
Still it was a good point well made and got to the very heart of the problem faced by those opposing the motion: yes it may feel right that today’s struggling yoof with their student loans and their unpaid internships are having it tougher than ever.
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