The Next Generation Isn't Broken

Because every generation thinks the one that follows them is lazy, lost, and heading for disaster. They're usually wrong. Are young people really entitled and work-shy, or simply responding rationally to a world that looks nothing like the one we walked into? Shorter attention spans, influencer culture, £60k of student debt, and an AI revolution nobody can predict the rules have changed. The question is whether we're blaming the players. Rachael is joined by Kate Ankers, Head of English and frontline teacher, to cut through the noise from TikTok attention spans and the death of the Saturday job, to the soft skills gap nobody in government wants to fix, and what resilience actually looks like in a generation we've never quite let fail. If you employ, manage, or are raising an under-25 this one's for you.