In today’s newsletter: With more young people outside of work and education than ever before, researchers say the ‘Neet’ epidemic reflects a deeper crisis of mental health, opportunity and institutional failure

What emerges from these figures is a picture of generational misery. As Mon-Williams puts it: “I really think we need to take a step back, take a good hard look at ourselves as a country, and ask : what on earth have we allowed to happen?”

Austerity is a hell of a drug to wake up from a 40+ year bender on…