Daniel Howell: 'If young people aren't supported it's going to screw everybody'

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Daniel Howell has spent the pandemic in a slight apocalyptic nuclear bunker", with terrible internet. It is quite the revelation for someone who shot to stardom documenting his life on YouTube, with his channel reaching more than 6 million subscribers.

Speaking over a Zoom call, the former BBC Radio 1 presenter jokes that his routine of watering house plants" and peering out the windows" has been interrupted. But despite the dystopian glaze overshadowing 2020, he has not found this year as hard as some.