Harvey Peters: from Norwich City to Watford FC, via Ray Winstone
One per cent: that’s how many teenage footballers signed to club youth squads make it. What happens to the other 99 per cent? Harvey, 16, knows how hard the journey can be.
Youth
Student life: “We made our position clear, that we should be sensible and not having parties”
In the second of a week-long series, figures from music, art, food, sex work and education look back on a year that shook their fields. Here, Louise Hall, President of the Arts University Bournemouth Students’ Union, reflects on a year on – and off – campus.
How Accra’s first skatepark galvanised a community
Set up by Sandy Alibo, Freedom Skatepark’s initial goal was to empower Ghana’s youth. These days, it has the support of Daily Paper, Vans and Virgil Abloh, with no plans of slowing down.
Beyond the batcave: at home with the goths
No generation can resist the allure of sex, death and the occult. But just who are today’s goths? Where do they find each other? And how do they define the term? We go beyond the batcave to find out.
Generation isolation: you are not alone
Covid-19 has made young people more disconnected than ever. Psychotherapist Martina Jean-Jacques discusses the simple steps we can take to combat feelings of loneliness.
Deanna Templeton’s secret life of the American teen
Documenting the Instagram generation through analogue photography, the artist’s new book, What She Said, pairs today’s female punks with the visceral, at times hard to swallow diary entries she wrote as a 15-year-old outcast living in 1980s California.