The most worrying aspect of yesterday's unemployment figures was the rise of 32,000 in the number of 16- to 24-year-olds who are out of work. It takes the total to 951,000, or a rate of 20.3 per cent, the highest since these statistics were first recorded almost 20 years ago. This is not a uniquely British issue. Youth unemployment in France stands at 23 per cent, in Sweden at 25 per cent, in Spai