Donald Erskine: If youth is wasted on the young, politics is being wasted on the old
The word ‘alienation’ was used fervently by Jimmy Reid in his Glasgow University rectorial address, delivered with the gusto lacking in today's politics, in 1972. Reid believed alienation was widespread and defined it as ‘the feeling of despair and hopelessness that pervades people excluded from the processes of decision making’.
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