STRAIGHT TALK
MARK BARNES: Young guns better informed and connected to fire up future trends in leadership
I hope that one day my children will say of me that I stood behind them, not in front of them. It is self-evident to me that, although by some definition we may be wiser than our children, as a general rule we are less informed. Sebastian Kurz is 31 years old and he is the chancellor-elect of Austria. He got into politics only two years after leaving university and has been foreign minister since he was 26. Many of you reading this will have children older than Kurz, some of whom are still living at home and getting pocket money. Kurz has strong views on immigration, the big issue in Europe, ever since Angela Merkel, 63, decided to admit more than a million refugees into Germany in 2015, which he opposes openly. Regardless of differing views on policies (on which I do not express a view) there does seem to be a move towards acceptance of younger world leaders.It nevertheless came as no surprise to me that, up to now, the age of world leaders follows a normal distribution, centred ro...
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