Generation Left
By Keir Milburn
Polity Press, 140pp, £9.99/$15
Young people don’t get a good press these days. Sure, “the youth of today” is a grumble as old as mankind, but the millennials of the early 21st century are mocked and denounced to an unprecedented degree. If not demonised as hypersensitive “snowflakes” who seek to ban anything they find offensive or hurtful to their feelings, they are criticised as whiny, spoilt brats who don’t know how good they have it.
Whether such opprobrium is deserved is a moot point; what is undisputed is that ours is an age divided between young and old.
