Charlie Walker

Charlie Walker is a 22-year-old neuroscience graduate. He works in education

The painful truth about Gen Z

An older friend once described his freshers’ week in some detail: a botched proposal, two inadvertently-acquired tattoos and more alcohol than he cared to remember. Mine was rather different: I was confined by the pandemic to a 3×4 metre room with solitary meals in an exam hall canteen. Corridors determined household bubbles (there were two