Lydia Hamilton's blog


Stop labelling young people

Have a look through a copy of the Daily Mail or the Sun and you are bound to find a cynical story of how young people are destroying society.

It wasn’t until doing work experience on a local paper that I realised how damaging stories like this can be to the image of the younger generation.

As part of my work, I decided that I would take a different approach and try to bring some light on the real situation affecting young people.

Politicians and Twitter: a recipe for disaster

Type in “politicians” into Google and “politicians on Twitter” comes up as the top search suggestion. Twitter is a website for people to post about their hobbies, and to tell their followers what they had for dinner, and anything else that would be too trivial to have a real conversation about. It should not be used to host controversial debates, especially when the ‘tweeter’ has keep their argument to 140 characters.