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The Rigged Game: Why Britain’s Youth Are Paying the Price | Women, Actually
In this episode of Women, Actually, host Oonagh Gonzales dissects the growing crisis of youth disillusionment in Britain, exploring why a staggering three out of four young people feel the social contract has been broken. This deep-dive analysis examines the long-term impacts of post-2008 austerity, the pandemic’s erosion of progress, and the rising cost of living on a generation that feels trapped in a rigged game. We move beyond cold statistics to understand the human reality behind the one-in-four fairness metric, highlighting how structural failures have replaced individual resilience as…
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