Vicky Spratt

Wednesday

Vicky Spratt

Moaning millennials have just made the rental market fairer

From our UK edition

Online petitions don’t actually change things, do they? What a silly waste of time. Politicians don’t actually listen to…the people, right? Millennials are so naïve, look at them indulging their narcissism with online clicktivism. Or not. After seven months of campaigning to Make Renting Fair at The Debrief, working with the likes of Lib Dem peer Baroness Olly Grender (whose Renters’ Rights Bill is in its committee stage in the House of Lords), and delivering a petition signed by a quarter of a million people to Downing Street, we’ve won in our aim: the Government has announced a ban on letting agency fees for tenants in what can only be described as a U-turn.

Friday

Vicky Spratt

The Brexit debate is a luxury many young people can’t afford

From our UK edition

Newsflash: young people don’t care about the EU referendum. On the whole, we are neither Eurosceptic nor Europhobic. I work as features editor of millennial female news lifestyle site, The Debrief. When we asked our readers how they were going to vote on 23 June, an overwhelming 71 per cent said they would vote to remain. 19 per cent said they didn’t know. As a millennial myself I know that my peers have hardly found the Brexit debate inspiring – the prospect of leaving the EU is not something many of us had considered and we resent it being forced upon us. The EU – complete with fisheries, Jean-Claude Juncker, Schengen and Maastricht – has hardly been on the tip of our tongues in recent years.