2026-01-06
24 分钟This is The Guardian.
Today,
can saving Britain's youth clubs help the most connected and yet isolated generation in history?
I was sat on the tube on the northern line going south.
and I noticed a group get on, a man and three young people.
This is Emma Warren, a journalist and cultural historian from London.
And there's something happening here that I can't quite recognise but that I know.
They're not from school, don't look like it's a family group.
She sat quietly watching the group, trying to figure out who was who, particularly the adult.
When someone started raising something about money, which can be a very contested issue,
He was just like, oh, tell me what do you think?
Oh, what do you think?
Bringing people in, dropping them out.
I was watching someone extremely skillful.
Suddenly she realised who this man was.
Oh, it is a youth worker.
And he was turning the end of the tube carriage into a youth club.
Emmett knows a youth worker when she sees one
because she used to do that kind of work too when she ran a magazine with young people in Brixton in South London.
Now she's written a book celebrating the youth club,