Resources: Review - A big vision of youth policy that fails todeliver

I just hope the others are more coherent, less rambling and repetitive, and better connected. Nowhere in this compilation is the title afforded any clear explanation, though it does appear in a sentence on page 86 and in exactly the same sentence on page 120. These sentences are in two different chapters, one written in 1982 and the other in 1988, yet the latter contains huge chunks of identical material from the former.

Astley says that the essays included in the book, written between 1982 and 2004, have not been tampered with. He resisted the temptation to revise them, maintaining that they should "stand or fall on their contemporary merits", but perhaps he should have done so, if only to get rid of what cannot be claimed as reinforcement but simply unnecessary repetition.