#daniel knowles

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Mistakes by Sharon Van Etten from the album We've Been Going About This All Wrong - Shot & Directed by: Ashley Connor

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Porta by Sharon van Etten - Director: Leslie Raymond [Making of here]

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How did three separate anti-car books come out last year? What was going on in the zeitgeist?

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The most adorable note from Baby Daniel

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What's most annoying is the idea that people on Twitter and people hanging around at Occupy and people living in squats are the voice of my generation. If I were to wander around West London asking 25-year-old Sloanes working in management consultancy and banking what they think of the world, I wouldn't get a much less representative sample. Most young people are not deeply depressed about the world, and that, oddly enough, is why they're not raging about it on Twitter. There are many problems facing young people. The housing market is a rigged bubble, which locks out anyone who cannot borrow about £20,000 from a family member for a deposit. In a fiercely competitive world, the prospects for the 25 per cent or so who leave school with no qualifications at all are pretty miserable – real wages for unskilled labour have been in decline for over a decade. And taxes are on a relentless drive upwards, to pay for the demographic crunch that approaches us. But the economic system is not broken – it still produces an incredible standard of living for the vast majority of people, young or old. And if I want to hear the opposite case, there are plenty of young people who are better at making it than Mason.

So, from a Telegraph, middle-england perspective, Daniel Knowles (a sound journalist, in fairness) makes the same kind of riposte to Mason's declinism as I did late last night- 'no future' for most graduates only means not owning property, the real crunch will be on school leavers squeezed at the bottom of the pile - but pretty much spins it as a positive.