As long as we can remember, Millennials have been getting a bad rap. We’ve been called lazy, entitled, shallow, disengaged. We lived our lives online, not engaging with the real world or our own friends. In particular, Millennials never got involved with politics.

Of course, we know now this picture isn’t accurate. But even as a politics nerd who hangs out with lots of other politics nerds, the route to actually working in politics isn’t clear to us.

We spoke to Clement Nocos, a fellow Millennial politics nerd, who told us how he got a job with Canadian opposition leader Jagmeet Singh. Hint: he did it with a GQ interview - https://www.gq.com/story/jagmeet-singh-interview

And you can follow Clement on Twitter -

https://twitter.com/amaturhistorian

Check out Rowan's blog on how young people struggling to get into politics is a problem for all of us - http://www.rowan-emslie.com/millennials-struggling-to-get-politics-jobs/

QUICK HITS

Peter Hitchens garbage take on the Westminster sexual harassment scandal.

And we hear about the technology and campaigning techniques being used by Catalans. One of these is a direct democracy platform https://decidim.org/

And finally, you know the drill...

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