Arthur O Connor
When finally we emerge at the other end of the Covid crisis, will we genuinely learn the lessons, or just be so relieved that we go back to making the same mistakes again? Will it be politics as usual, with the older generations in charge, the young patronised and widely ignored?
At 21, I face the typical dilemma of the young adult: interested and engaged, but ultimately powerless and without real influence. Now halfway through my Masters degree at St Andrew’s, I am standing on the precipice of life outside academia, moved to consider how hundreds of thousands of others must share my feelings of dejection. We face a future living outside the European Union a choice few of us made. We face the worst graduate employment prospects in decades, alongside an inaccessible housing market. All taking place as the country faces the task of rebuilding a post-Covid UK, and the world faces the largest existential threat to humanity in centuries – climate chan