What I couldn't say on the BBC 

on the flip side, I'm a 43 year old man and I am quite chuffed to be called "young" :D

Calm down youngin ~78 year old

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Good on you Diana for looking for multiple sources of news. Some people are glued to one channel.

Yes unchallenged

well said, the comment was reminiscent of how snidey journos level the same "accusation" at J Peterson.

If you wanted to aim a channel at young men it would be porn

I didn't think Politics Joe was "aimed largely at young men" but what do I know! JOE, may or may not have been but I don't really see how the politics offshoot is, if you've watched more than a couple of clips on the channel.

She could have gone full-on culture war and said ‘young men of fighting age’ 😂

No, it was something that rubbed me the wrong way. We dont have newspaper editors introduced like “largely caters to old white men”

left_blank yeah who needs teachers anyway right? If they can't afford to live near the school they work at why don't they move hundreds of miles away and buy a house there instead...

@@unknown_name_389 Then who is going to teach London's children?

@left_blank so you don't think primary school aged children should go to school? If they all change jobs as you suggest, who teaches those children?

@@wanklefish Nobody. Then market forces come in and push wages up or rents down. Isn’t that how it is supposed to work ?

​@@ifanmorgan8070 maybe in some sectors, but relying on market forces when it comes to the long term planning involved in training the next generation seems like a very risky thing to do. Market forces typically favour short term returns over longer timeframes (like in the stock market), which is an innapropriate risk to take when we're talking about timeframes measured in decades.

So you seriously think a 20 year old has as much wisdom as a 70 year old, the future was in your hands once , what did you do ?

Gave birth to a daughter that has created a huge carbon footprint with five kids

​@@voodoochile333 antinatalists are weird. You consume more than them. Why don't you just delete yourself?

@@petermartinaitis8166 Please describe your understanding of the word 'wisdom'. Otherwise, go away.

@@voodoochile333 What on earth are you on about?

I’m the same age as yourself, but I don’t think it’s so much to do with people being frightened what they say, I think the truth is , unfortunately that, It’s more to do with media selectivity . They don’t like people who rock the boat, getting to close to the truth.

@@robertheap2911 the concept you’re describing is the Manufacture of consent through media

@@jaykaygxd8497 Very possibly or blocking those , who don’t aspire to the narrative 🧐

@@robertheap2911 I'm talking about all the politicians and commentators they get on every week. People continually sit on the fence, won't nail their colours to the mast.

@@ChrisWhittenMusic I understand what your saying Chris, I’ve noticed that myself. I think though , that the mainstream media and the BBC now , unfortunately, has let’s say tweaked its guidelines . To the extent of following the current narratives and making it difficult for any so called controversy to take place. And it might also be the calibre of guest. How is it for example, you don’t see enough of Peter Hitchens now from the Right wing, who doesn’t mince his words , regarding politics of the day. And Jeremy Corbyn is not invited on these programs ; almost a forgotten man. And you don’t see George Galloway on mainstream do you. There are many others, but you have to go on RU-vid now to see anything of them. Whether I agree with certain people or not, I welcome their voice and opinions as a democratic right. I saw Peter Hitchens for example debating the merits of the war in Ukraine, which he fervently disagrees with. So it’s not a Left wing thing for example. And George Galloway speaks his mind just like Tony Benn used to do . But he has to host his own RU-vid channel .

Honestly, after seeing how the workplace operates. Picking agency staff over younger people, managers chasing figures when they could do a much better job listening to people. I'm solidly in the camp of silent quitting, the UK wastes talent. Companies should be insentifised to value their own.

A lot of us had to go abroad. That was not he idea - but it is what has happened. And it's been happening in my case for more than 30 years. The levelling up has just not happened. And it never will.

For what it’s worth, I faced the same for my engineering jobs.

I don’t understand the problem. Why didn’t you move to Derby? I’m from North London and I’m sure rent/buying there is very cheap

@bulbulonOnEbayUK Very good question, it's all really usual stuff, my partner worked and still works in Sheffield plus all my friends and family are there. Also it would have been risky to move while in the probation period for that job. That finished after the start of lockdown which made moving unnecessary due to wfh.

It's trillions not billions. I suppose you could say £1000 billion or 2500 billion though.

@@mattygroves21478 my bad.... i was broke before, but now you've scared me.....

@@czarekp3552 The UK National Debt is indeed frightening.

​@@mattygroves21478 in the 70s they used to use the one thousand million to mean a billion, if we use that phrasing then our debt is Two and a half million, million pounds. By shortening it to billion and trillion it doesn't seem so bad but when the richest person in the world is worth two hundred thousand million dollars, you gotta ask how rich do you need to be and why aren't they taxed more because they can always outbid and outprice any normal people on the assets like housing.

@@DoktorLorenz The moon is 1/4 million miles away. It takes a second for light from earth to reach it, and a car travelling at 60mph, 6 months to reach it. Saturn is 3/4 billion miles away from us. Light from earth takes an hour and a half to get there, and 375years for the car. The national debt is £2.5 Trillion. 2.5 Trillion miles is half a light year and the car would take 1.25 million years to drive that far. The fact that we'll likely see trillionaires in our lifetimes beggars belief, and is disgusting.

Absolutely.

I hear you Ruth. We GenX were perhaps the last analogue generation. I got into technology at a young age but life was far from dominated by it. I too did not breed and I'm quite smug about it. When I skid off this mortal coil, I'll leave no mess. I need not apologise to Greta, her parents should apologise to Mother Earth. Humans are basically a cancer on this planet. The kindest thing one can do is not to procreate. P.S. I remember "Threads (1984)" as I'm sure you do. I joined CND the day after watching it.

Attestupa then?

@@MerlynMusicman No ones stopping you, I'll be glad to help.

GenX here, you've totally captured my experience too... ours is a weird generation- as significant senior (not elderly) people- headmaster, managers etc were war veterans when we were children....and I recall Street partys for the silver jubilee in 1977. I left the UK when I was 29, and as an older mother, I've raised my kids to be politically aware- and I'll badger their mates to vote and to question the status quo. I have the utmost faith in these young people, they're far more switched on than I was at that age

I think of the "old boys" that died in world war 2, they would be turning in there graves the state of this country

We did not forget to build it was policy not to build and to privatise any thing that was or was not bolted down .

No one forgot to build more. It was a deliberate policy to create an artificial scarcity of housing, so hedge funders/ landlords with a property portfolio could see their investments always keep growing in value. Also, when Thatcher allowed council houses to be sold off, there was a deliberate policy to not have any more council houses built, so the stock of social housing was forced to shrink.

@@nickjanczak9665 100% correct and Blair did the same

@@tommyrotton9468 Thatcher called Blair her ''greatest achievement'' and he was - made in the likeness of herself. That man should be in prison for war crimes, amongst other things.

@@nickjanczak9665 Blair was far worse than Thatcher, he outwardly did Thatcherism, but secretly he introduced communism into the legal system. All the hate laws, woke laws, Human rights being more important than common law, the immigration crisis, all started with the secret Blair laws. When Boris got the 80 seat majority he should have destroyed every Blair law ever made rather than double down on them :(

It doesn’t matter what you actually are paid. The rich own the distribution of the goods you need to live. - food, heat shelter. & as long as they can increase those the money you are paid might as well be play money. Watch the bail out that’s not the bail out all across Europe. "We are going to increase the money supply to ensure inter bank liquidity" The just made the money in everyone’s pocket worth less…

I am 46 and I damaged my spine at work, been disabled I have found it hard to get the help I need, doctors are so over run your just a number these days. I always wanted my own home but it's always been out of reach even tho I have worked all my life till I became disabled

She has to say nothing. If she spoke the truth her tory masters would ensure her career is finished.

This is because of failure to build housing in the 80s and 90s.

She's disgusting

Because she is part of the Tory Scum

She is very well aware how important her role is. That's why she sides with the big guns. She sees it as her job to keep ordinary people ignorant and to promulgate the propaganda. So do those who employ and pay her.

you need to understand that legacy media journalists in this country (and most others), are buddies with political class, without option to opt out. And independent journalists usually are kept for mockery, and presenting them like some kind of extreme side.

She's a propagandist.

Me too. What a shock!

To be fair I also find the repeated attempt by SOME in my generation to criticize the older generation reductive, to say the least. I am incredibly grateful to those who fought for the rights I now have as a gay man who's knocking on the door of his thirties (here's hoping they are retained as the conversation regarding LGBTQ+ rights has got particularly nasty again). I would argue though that it is fair to say, and the research does tend to show this, that older generations have drained the assets of this country and are hoarding them more so than in previous decades and are far more likely to support parties that will benefit them retaining said wealth. It is understanable that those who are so disillusioned and grew up with a new labour government (that launched us in to a series of wars) that then swapped to a tory government just as we became fully politically conscious, are furious and looking for who to blame. Sadly, your entire generation then becomes the focal point of the ire rather than the ruling class. I think it would be fairer to not just smear the entire generation, the majority of people do know it isn't ALL boomers. Much the same as most reasonable boomers know that not all millennials and gen z are lazy layabouts. The problem we have is culture wars and intergenerational conflict play right into Tory hands and they are going to continue to stoke it for as long as possible. Sunak is clearly not stupid, he knows what he is doing (trying to stop his party from collapsing rather than focusing on the country). I dread the upcoming election period in late 24 early 25, the culture wars are already this rough now and when the tories are fighting desperately to stop their party sinking in to irrelevance they seemingly are going to go hardcore on Asylum and Trans rights, lucky us.

​@@JosherooI have got to set you right re:Blair. He was voted in 3 times in a row! The Blair years were the best time for our country, they were the actual times when we REALLY had never had it so good. The wealth was shared around the country, women had equal rights, to have a child out of wedlock (live in sin) was accepted. We were a happy nation, great music, Tories were just like pompous nobodies, but they were plotting, they voted for the wars as well as many Labour MP's. Blair listen to the USA, namely Republican President, George Bush. Our "Special Relationship", was pushed by Bush. UGH!

1965/66. The peak of the UK babyboom.

@@stephfoxwell4620 1967

Nice.

Ditto me too

Also I'm one of those sad fuckers who consume a lot of political content - and this discussion is absolutely top class, both in the sort of topics covered and the depth and nuance that they are dealt with

It’s £700 million, but your arguments still stand, only much more so.

You took advantage of the situation you were in. You made a smart business move. I would have done the same. It's dog eat dog out there, look after number 1.

It's a systemic thing, the people who set it up are responsible for that.

Don't feel bad Brian, you did what you could and it's unlikely you caused any suffering, unlike the banks that offer those mortgages. Enjoy your retirement

geared toward lefties

Me too, I don't imagine as many young people would be watching the interview with Ian Hislop as older people.

@@MrSilverPants68 Yeah, younger people.

@@mattygroves21478 Millennials, generation Z is far more right wing than the previous generation.

@@urmum3773 is [sic] they? Any examples to back that claim up?

Ouch!

Home ownership increased under Thatcher.

​@@BENTWOONEZERObecause she allowed people to buy up, the social housing then never provided anymore. Thus creating more colour TV Tories. All part of the divide and conquer.

Thatcher did not, this was all down to Warmongerer Blair and his NEW Labour.

The anecdote about your dad is irrelevant though, nothing stopping him buying another at the time was there

That £650 in 1958 is now £18,647.21 in today's money

Yes. I'm.doing that. 😊

@@patcampton7163 👍

The trouble is Britain has people obsessed with owning rather than renting

@@skyblazeeterno yeah, it’s the concession that means the government can get away with everything else. Fake wealth.

@@tabularasa7775 it's not just grandchildren as the first comment says either, it's first gen kids (myself) of that gen and the poor and singles or those who genuinely are sick and cannot work so can no longer save for a home. It's simply capitalism, make the state smaller and make it a free for all and f*ck anyone who can't manage. The decision is bigger than housing, its who are we as a society and the boomers post war and Churchill had atlee a socialist government with the introduction of the nhs and benefits that followed as well as social housing which had always been part of britain but we threw it all down the drain with thatcher as we sought or rather some did the Reagan ism 'British dream' but for the majority it's as hamster wheel of a nightmare

@@tabularasa7775 god who cares. Don’t you just want people to have housing? Stop being bitter and advocate for affordable housing for everyone

​@@tabularasa7775 As much as it's frustrating, blaming the poor will never fix anything. Let's keep the focus on the politicians and elites who can actually fix these problems.

...and they continue to sell the farkin council houses when they know what's happening. Madness.

Ask them where new money comes from

You voted for more socalism you screwed yourself socalist . Socalism doesn't lead to more home ownership it never has. In vienna & Singapore 🇸🇬 90% of population live in public housing they don't own homes the government crooks do

As I understand it even accountants and lawyers can't afford to buy in 90% plus of the UK.

I wish people my age didn't like the walking skid mark that is Andrew Tate

Tate is a reaction to the systemic hatred of boys and men that has become mainstream over the past 20 years. The girls have been getting all the breaks while the boys just get kicked by the likes of the Guardian and the BBC. It’s hardly a surprise that nearly 57% of girls go into higher education, while barely 44% of boys do.

Half the time the cookie banners aren’t actually coded into switching on/off cookies anyway. Whether you click yes/no it just hides the banner and carries on using cookies.

@@RobertShippey Oh dear.

@@andrina118 Privacy Badger.. set it to "strict".. whitelist the very few sites where you log in and have an account if you like.. here for instance.. confuse them by clicking on videos you have zero interest in..

Look up the data for social housing stock in the UK on the ONS, specifically for houses (where Right To Buy has the most acute effect) since it was phased out in Scotland, Scotland has experienced year on year growth in council houses. Whilst the rest of the country is still declining, they banned it in Wales recently but the ban hasn't come into effect yet, so do keep an eye out for how that will change in the coming years.

To be clear... Peterson is straight-faced stand-up.

What is sadder is that you think your view matters in comparison to his genius. Where is your published body of work? Yeah, you don't have one do you .

​@@ghostdog4330 don't you have shadows to bark at babes

​@@ghostdog4330 Genius? The guy who only eats meat, is addicted to benzos, almost died due to it in Russia, now gets overly emotional and cries about everything, and tweets like 30 times a day about the most snowflake crap ever? "What does 'put' mean?" Truly one of the deepest thinkers of our time. Also weirdly obsessed with trans people and an illogical Christian. Go watch Steven Fry or Gad Sad tear him apart in debates. Actual smart people make Peterson look like the average mind that he is. He's just a grifter mate, try and be objective about him. He became famous regurgitating basic self help advice to incels. "Tidy your room" is truly groundbreaking stuff.

@@anfearaerach hello millennial npc. Have you met your pseudo-virtue signalling requirements for the day? The hive is disappointed by your slacking

@Ron Ainley .. I’m 74 .. I’m more than flattered to be described as a young mail! I voted remain. I hate Tories. I predicted Boris would be a useless prick. I predicted Truss would be useless. She was worse than useless. Don’t always think pensioners are pro-Tory brexiters!

As a retired old git, you are right, my selfish generation has a lot to answer for.

Hmm back when they were 16 they could easily get a job. These days all require 2 year experiance.

Mark Taylor….I’m up for that generational conflict. “When we fight back “ !!! Who against ??? You clearly think it was easy being a “boomer” from a working class background, well it wasn’t and if you can provide any evidence for your “it’s not fair” self pity , go ahead. How long does it take to build a house ? 1 year at the most. How long have the Tories been in power this time ? This problem began with Margaret Thatcher whose narrow monetarist policy abandoned “lame duck “ industries to their fate, unlike in Europe who invested in their industries , with whole communities abandoned , and Norman Tebbit telling people to “get on their bikes”. People did just that and headed south where employment was available…..and this is what has put severe pressure on the housing market. Well it’s tough because my heart bleeds for every Tory with negative equity and a sky high mortgage, because the Tory voting heartland is in the lower midlands and the south . This problem has been created by Government, not the boomers.

​@Davidty 2006 would you have done something differently in our shoes? Many of us had to go to work to support family finances. Many of us had no opportunity to take up further education.

@@clivemortimore8203 Thanks for the support, and I really do mean it. Usually whenever I bring this up, I get a tonne of defensive BS from people your age. All saying 'I've never voted Tory', 'I didn't vote Brexit' etc. Which is the prickliness you'd expect from those with guilty consciences. They know what they've done, and aren't able to admit it.

And those around 30 as well! Anyone born after 1988 has been screwed by the Tories since 2010.