Britain's youth are living in Nick Clegg's shadow

Britain's youth are living in Nick Clegg's shadow

Thought experiment: if you wanted to design the most regressive and distortive model for funding higher education imaginable – a system that would saddle a cohort of productive young people with a lifetime of higher taxes compared to those just a few years older than them, which got worse the more they earned but could be dodged via the simple trick of having rich parents, and which would also incentivise universities to flog cheap courses to as…