Generation Debt is changing, but not as Mr Blair imagines

Guardian Unlimited | Guardian daily comment | Generation Debt is changing, but not as Mr Blair imagines: "Generation Debt also contains augurs of surprising moves in a more collectivist direction. In its account, 'a new generation of labour organisers and advocates' is addressing the flimsiness of the American service economy by reinventing, of all things, trade unionism. At the same time, more than a few American students are trying to revive the quaint idea that education is a social good and taxation ought to fund more of it. And look at current events in France: university students renewing the spirit of 1968's événements in response to the fact that the government's loosening of employment regulations will start, naturally enough, with those under 26.

Therein lies a compelling spectacle: a generation tapping into the kind of politics that it had supposedly rendered obsolete. Mr Blair's beloved change, it seems, may yet march in a rather unexpected direction."