Telegraph | Opinion | Today's twentysomethings have never had it so bad:
"Except that, when I talked to a group of them, their lives didn't seem that easy. Compared with the older generation swanning around on their cruises, they seemed anxious, exhausted and alienated. A few months later, the think tank Reform took up the term the iPod generation, labelling them insecure, pressurised, overtaxed and debt-ridden.
Now the pensions crisis has made it even more clear. To be young in Britain is not a carefree experience. The real divide in this country is no longer between toffs and council estate lads, the public sector versus the private sector, or middle-class culture compared with the benefits culture. The big gap now is between the old and the young. David Willetts, in a speech to the think tank Policy Exchange yesterday, called it, 'the clash of the generations'. "
