The New Statesman.

Cast your mind back to 2010.

Apple launched the iPad, a volcano erupted in Iceland, and David Cameron and Nick

Clegg passed a bill that would screw over a generation of young people.

I'm talking, of course, about the increase of university

tuition fees in England at £9,000 per year, joining me to discuss how this is radicalised graduates.

Radicalised a generation, I think. Is Rachel Cundleff? Hello, Rachel.

Hello, including you. Yeah, I am radicalised by this. I mean, I've put my cards on the table.

I was in the 2012 cohort i actually i actually

bunked off school rachel uh in 2010 to attend the fees protests um got a train down to

london with my mate was at millbank tower whole nine yards it was kind of my sort of political

epiphany really it was my your awakening yeah i think so i mean to of my sort of political epiphany, really. It was my... Your awakening. Yeah, I think so. I mean, to just really sort of start the episode by pissing me off, how much poorer will I be than people who are a year older than me? You were going to ask me that. And I've tried to work it out. And the answer is it depends how much you weren't over a career, which we don't know that at the moment.

So the headline figure...

Won't know that at any point during the podcast, actually.

The headline is obviously like fees went up from just over 3,000 to just over 9,000.

So that's 6,000 a year.

So that's 18,000 straight off the bat.

But it actually works out much, much more than that because you are,

I imagine, highly unlikely to pay that debt off because of the interest rates, which we'll

discuss later in the podcast episode, which means effectively, rather than thinking about it in terms

of a cash value, think of it in terms of an extra 9% of your income going to what is essentially

a graduate tax for 30 years. By the way, another thing they did that I just realized that I didn't

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