AS Scotland continues to edge timidly out of lockdown, no-one should be in any doubt, least of all our electioneering politicians, that our road to recovery will be a long, exhaustive and arduous potholed trek. But sadly for tens of thousands of our nation's young people, many whose lives have already been severely impacted by the pandemic, that journey might have already careered into a dead end. The NTIA (Night Time Industry Association) warns that the going-out economy faces a “tsunami” of 24,000 job losses unless the Scottish Government accelerates the easing of their lockdown restrictions. Official figures published by the Office for National Statistics showed that last year up until December, the number of jobless amongst young people in Scotland aged 16-24 had rocketed by 50% to 45,000, compared to a UK equivalent rise of 15.4%. This means 13.5% of that age group are now out of work, up from 8.3% the previous year.