Tunisia's recent revolution, in the eyes of many experts, was triggered by its stubbornly high youth unemployment – as much as 24 per cent, according to the UN.
As the streets of Tunis burned, it was announced that Britain’s youth unemployment had risen to 20.3 per cent.
Unlike Tunisia’s President Zine al-Abidine Ben-Ali, David Cameron won’t be fleeing to Saudi Arabia any time soon.

Youth unemployment permanently scars its victims’ lives – they start behind, and may never catch up.
Even when they get a job, someone who has been out of work for more than a year in their youth will earn as much as 28 per cent less over their lifetime, and is more likely to be convicted of a crime. So society pays, too.

For the Right, the problem is different. Why, with 150,000 young unemployed in London, does your waiter so seldom have a London accent?
In The Sunday Telegraph last week a Midlands fruit farmer, Christine Snell, told how she had dozens of unskilled jobs – but couldn’t get young Britons for any of them.