I was an apprentice. Why have others following that path been betrayed? | Hugh Muir

This muddled government insisted it was pro-apprenticeships, then made it harder for businesses to employ them. How will they fix this mess?Somewhere in my attic there is a fading, yellowing scroll with a candle-wax seal handed to me for signature in 1982. It detailed a bargain between me and South Essex Recorders, part of Home Counties Newspapers, trading in this instance as the Newham Recorder in east London. I’m still not sure who got the best of the deal: for five years they couldn&rsq