Young people are angry, so why aren’t they getting political?

Previous generation got political by voting and joining political parties, but young people now engage in a host of very different activities to demonstrate their activism, writes Meg Watkins.

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The general consensus seems to be that young people are increasingly disillusioned and disengaged with politics – at least how we’re perceived by older generations and the media.

But the reality is that young people are actually more engaged than ever – just in a different way.

The politics of the past has been very much about electoral engagement, i.e. voting and joining a political party.

Now more than ever, us young people are moulding our own type of politics: the…

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