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James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Why should a young person go to war?

James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Global

Daily News, News

4.5840 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2025

⏱️ 156 minutes

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This is a catch-up version of James O'Brien's live, daily show on LBC Radio. To join the conversation call: 0345 60 60 973

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It's three minutes after ten, and you are listening to James O'Brien on LBC.

1:04.8

After the boast, the humility.

1:07.4

So I think we were first out of the traps on what the Daily Mail chooses this

1:11.6

morning in typically unsympathetic fashion to call the death of the work ethic with labor

1:16.8

at war over benefit cuts. One in four young people consider quitting the workforce entirely.

1:25.5

If you turn to the front page of the Daily Telegraph, a slightly different conclusion

1:29.7

involving four in 10 Gen Z workers quitting to live on benefits. Is that the same statistic?

1:35.9

Is one in four? Close to the same as four in ten? I think it is kind of, isn't it? But they've

1:41.4

crunched the numbers slightly different. This is one of the big

1:44.7

four accountancy firms, warning that a generation of workers were now in danger of permanently

1:49.6

drifting out of the jobs market. They identify mental health conditions as a major driver of

1:56.7

youth worklessness. 4.4 million, the mooted total in the overall workforce. That would be one

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