by Julian Mann, Christian Today
The main winner from the lost boys of the UK, as described in a new report into young male under-achievement by the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ), is bound to be Islam.
According to the CSJ’s Lost Boys report, published this week, “since the pandemic alone, the number of males aged 16 to 24 who are not in education, employment or training (NEET) has increased by a staggering 40 per cent compared to just seven per cent of females”.
“For those young men who are in work, the much-vaunted gender pay gap has been reversed. Young men are now out-earned by their female peers, including among the university educated.”
The CSJ also found that “the growing divergence in boys’ and girls’ outcomes does not only apply to education and employment. We are also seeing a growing divide in the social and political attitudes of the sexes.
“In Britain, as in countries across the developed world, young men are increasingly drawn to conservative, traditionalist or right-wing political movements, whilst young women become ever more liberal and left-progressive.”
The Lost Boys report declared: “As Britain grapples with an epidemic of family breakdown, millions of boys are deprived of any positive model of manhood. For boys and young men in Britain – especially those who are poor – the picture is an increasingly bleak one.”
Writing in The Daily Scepticon Monday at the start of Ramadan, Christian Concern’s head of public policy, Tim Dieppe, pointed out that Islam is the fastest growing religion in the UK: