I was neck deep in my master’s and spending my weekends getting tennis elbow from a cocktail shaker when I landed my first reporter job in Glasgow. Now, two years later, I’m committed to bringing you a fresh take on what matters most to younger people in Scotland each week for The Herald.
I moved to Scotland (bright eyed and bushy tailed) at age 20 in September 2015 from Vancouver. This Scotland was hurtling towards a future that young people didn’t vote for, but one that would change our prospects indefinitely.
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A few months later David Cameron called the 2016 EU referendum. While there’s no official figures, it’s thought that around 73 per cent of people under age 24 voted to remain. The independence movement had lost by a margin of only 10.6 percentage points just months before.
The next year, an Australian real estate mogul made millennials the butt of every boomer joke by claiming we spend too much money on avocados and that’s why we’re poor.
Maybe if the Gambling Commission investigated the fumbled bets made on our country’s future a decade ago, we wouldn’t find ourselves in such an austere pit of despair now. But this upcoming election is sure to wipe the slate clean (and deep down I’m an optimist).
Each week, I’ll be covering topics through the lens of a generation that feels underrepresented, starting with tomorrow’s take on the state of our night-time economy.
As the editor of The Glasgow Wrap, I spend each morning scouring the internet for Glasgow’s local news. I curate what I find into a free daily newsletter that saves readers from the tyranny of ads, clickbait, auto-playing videos, hyperbole, algorithm intervention and other digital clutter.
It’s based on the philosophic belief that every generation and area deserves access to good quality local reporting because democracy depends on it. It’s also about sharing the work produced by talented journalists who give voice to people in their communities.
For more, you can sign up for my daily Substack newsletter at www.theglasgowwrap.co.uk
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