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What remains in place of actual social mobility is the lottery of TV fame and fortune

Who is young? There was a time that young people had all the fun - to take too many drugs, to deliberately damage your hearing Overloud music, being blithely ignore the importance of words such as "electricity bills" and "inflation" - but who really believes that now?

While encouraging the next generation will not be cut with the same types of cancer as we do, and their hearts beat will go - a girl born today has one chance in three of 100 life, and a child of one in four - the question is, do you really want? Or at least go to the poor among our youth like?

For , given our rapidly declining levels of social mobility, which means that if you were born poor and disadvantaged, it is likely that you will remain a century later. Life will not be nasty, brutish and short. Will be nasty, brutal and very, very long time. Or maybe not: it is very likely then, as now, the poor continue to die young. This could, in this case, be a blessing.

Who wants

years and years of servitude? Or, to be young? No one who managed to go to college, before fees were introduced, and managed to buy a place to live before inflation pushed the price of housing in a ridiculous dream. It rolled under the door, as Indiana Jones, as he was slamming. Because it is so inventive, the way we peel the opportunities for young people. Last week it emerged that the sabbatical activities - volunteering, hiking, hang on a beach in Thailand and smoking dope - could have a "certificate of personal effectiveness" is worth 70 UCAS points or equivalent to an A at AS- level

As a form of discrimination, even more, against the children of the working class, which, if you take a sabbatical, are much more likely to spend the savings on to work on your part to Tesco Registration, which is a stroke of genius. Because if you have the good fortune of being born into money, your chances of getting these days is now more or less than they were at the time of Thomas Hardy: You can buy a corset for the body and try to call the attention of the country squire. Or you can expect to come across a pot of gold buried at the bottom of your garden.

Or as we call it today, "to become a TV star." Because that is what is left in place of real social mobility: the lottery of fame television and fortune, a phenomenon that is "harmful to youth self-esteem," researchers at the University of Teesside said last week. Reality TV, her study of youth aged 16-24 years revealed, had created "models inaccessible."

too well. Sally Bercow, announced last week as a potential

Big Brother

roommate, illustrates this very well. She took the road to Thomas Hardy, "marry up" - the only reason anyone has heard of her is that her husband is the president - and now trying to take advantage of it in cash by the catalytic converter class . Good job, Sal

The survey also found that "one in four were depressed about their future." Well. You should be. Because they steal the blinds. What happens is a consolidation of wealth and power in the hands of those who have - and their offspring to come

tuition is an option, not a necessity imposed by a generation of politicians who have benefited from not paying. And house price inflation was a simple mechanism for transferring wealth from young to old. From landless to landowners. Your future mortgage debt? You will pay for their elders and superiors to take advantage of their properties and in the world of cruising. Or at least not end his days living on dog food. You? You will have no chance.

It's your choice, young people. Fighting. Or start storing Pedigree Chum.

What you need, Linda, is a nose job. As Rocky

And so another great sporting legend was born. Forget the fight of Muhammad Ali for the title against Joe Frazier. Or the hand of Maradona of God. Think manicure Linda Evangelista de la Gloria. Because documents filed last week a New York court (which explains why you need $ 46 000 per month in child support) show how Evangelista Sports has maintained its image "as an athlete. "

Leaving aside the details of the case child support - the most expensive ever made - and that includes $ 7500 per month for "holiday spending" and that he has already told the world it would not, like most athletes out of bed for less than $ 10,000, and to consider his regime ... "I have to go to the gym I go to the beauty that I have to work for my next job and maintain my image as an athlete when I work, which can be 16 hours a day. "

know. It's like Rocky, in fact, but without the final, bloody coup in which production is almost nose ripped from his face.
Although one can dream.