The arrest of Graham Linehan is a cop and ball story
The Father Ted writer was arrested by five armed police officers on arrival in the UK over historic tweets on trans people
The arrest of Graham Linehan is a cop and ball story
The Father Ted writer was arrested by five armed police officers on arrival in the UK over historic tweets on trans people
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Volume 54, issue 4: Winter 2025
Gen Z is revolting: Why the world's youth will not be silenced
Zoomers – young people born between 1997 and 2012 – took to the streets last summer. They didn't have a common ideology but they were angry about the state of world and felt hopeless for the future.
They are digital natives to their fingertips, theoretically able to exercise freedom – at least online – on a scale previous generations could only dream of. And yet many are afraid to say what they really think in public forums.