The combined membership of British political parties is less than two-thirds of that of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. Election turnout is falling and political apathy is rife. Yet the conclusion of this book is in marked contrast to this - young people do care. They just engage in different ways to those defined as formally "political".
I wish someone had given me the funding used for this research to run a youth project. But, then again, it is reassuring to have anecdotal experiences and personal understandings of the world confirmed in an academic source. The quotations from the young people interviewed make for interesting and sometimes uncomfortable reading, especially in terms of their pessimistic views of the state and their life chances.
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