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Britain Risks “A Lost Generation”

Novara Live

Novara Media

Politics, Daily News, News, News Commentary

4.8577 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2026

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

The number of young people not in work or training (Neets) has risen to over 1 million between January and March this year, risking “a lost generation” by 2031. Why, and what can be done?

Alex Grace, director of Operation Recomply, a documentary depicting the plight of the Palestine Action affiliated Filton 25, talks to us ahead of the film’s impending London premiere. Tickets available here: http://tiny.cc/qw74101

With NoJusticeMTG & Dalia Gebrial.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Navarra Live, coming up tonight.

0:05.0

Pearls are clutched as youth unemployment tops one million.

0:09.0

France's National Assembly is unanimous in repealing a slave owner's right to mutilate human beings

0:14.0

amid 180 years late.

0:16.0

We talked to the director of a new Palestine action documentary about the fate that awaits the Filton Six,

0:20.0

and sparks fly at M&S as yet more of their customers get their gendered knickers in a twist. I'm Helena, otherwise known as No Jutters, MTG, and it's Thursday, so it's Ladies and I'm Dalia, how you doing? I'm doing well. I'm having a little, like, fan Beyonce moment here. So, like, if you catch me feeling myself a little in this show,

0:38.2

don't be alarmed. I'm feeling very, you know, uh, very 80s. Very, very snotby right now.

0:44.3

Yeah, I'm feeling very pretentious. As always, if you'd like to support our work,

0:49.7

you can sign up at novaramedia.com forward slash support. And as always, you can also listen to the show on Spotify and Apple Podcasts,

0:57.4

and don't forget to let us know what you think in the comments section down below.

1:07.0

There are many people in the UK with plenty to complain about

1:09.9

when it comes to the state of the economy.

1:11.9

But no group has a bigger case of being left behind as young people.

1:15.4

They've had to deal with multiple once-in-a-lifetime economic shocks, one after the other,

1:20.0

during what should have been the halcyon days of their lives.

1:22.8

And politically, they've not just been ignored by the political class,

1:26.1

but actively demonised for supposedly

1:27.9

being work-shy and lazy or spoiled and entitled. The latest moral panic, however, around young people,

1:34.2

is regarding the levels of youth unemployment, given that the number of young people not in education,

1:38.8

employment, or training, that's neat, for short, has breached the one million mark,

1:43.0

around 13 and a half percent of 16 to 24s.

1:46.1

Now, this is at least somewhat of an admission, finally, that the economy just isn't working

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