Jilted Generation: How Britain Has Bankrupted Its Youth

Why can so few young people afford to buy a house?

Why do even top graduates struggle to find jobs?

And when they do, why are those jobs poorly paid and unstable?

Why does politics - from voting to protesting - seem so pointless?

Why is Britain not just ‘broken’ but also broke?

The jilted generation - those born after Thatcher came to power - face hard times. While their parents were handed free education, the jilted will be spend decades paying for theirs; while previous generations got jobs for life and bought homes to return to, the jilted generation are being locked out. But if Britain’s young people are insecure, unstable and poor, their parents are the richest generation ever to have lived and they have flatly failed to share the wealth.

Twenty-something journalists Ed Howker and Shiv Malik tell the sad, maddening story of how their generation’s future, once alive with possibility, is being strangled by the culture of short-termism; how the baby-boomers - their parent’s generation - seemingly squandered a nation’s communal wealth, turned their back on society and broke all barriers in a lifelong quest to express themselves.

Instead of creating a new world, their actions fostered a nation riddled with inequality, elitism and political corruption. Jilted Generation sets out how the next generation might succeed where this one has failed.