Jon Snow
C4 Class of 2012: The 'one million' challenge
It is painful even to write it – one million young people unemployed. Jon Snow blogs on the battle to address and retrieve what some have casually tagged the ‘lost generation’.
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Send in the architects!
At the climax of London Architecture Week, Jon Snow blogs on the award-winning redesign of New Horizon, a youth centre in King’s Cross, London.
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Belle de Jour meets New Horizon
After the outing of call girl Belle de Jour, Jon Snow blogs to put the other side of the coin, drawing attention to those people who have no cjoice in the matter and who work at the exploited, grubby end of prostitution.
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Dinky toys, from Winchester Cathedral to Camden
The item on the rarest Dinky toy in the world on last night’s Channel 4 News gave me a pang of nostalgia as I glimpsed my beloved Dinky car transporter (not the actual one, but the model) on the right of screen in Nick Glass’s report. When I was seven years old my mum and…
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New horizons for King's Cross youth centre
I take a lunch break at the New Horizon Youth Centre – it’s a day centre for homeless teenagers in King’s Cross where I work as chair of the management council. Conveniently, it is only 10 minutes from where I work. We have two new workers who I have come to meet on the first…