My Dad was aged 13 to 23 in the sixties. He makes it sound idyllic. He was a young man who liked walking, climbing, fishing and folk music. The world was full of possibilities and felt fuller of poss… (View Post)

I'm not sure it's entitlement - just a massive failure to recognise how anomalously lucky their generation is. My mother in law has a slightly exasperating tendency to talk to us about what we'll do … (View Post)

Arguably Cumbria is part of England and Wales. (View Post)

Well: a) the school play they performed at daughter 2's school last Feb - 'the Empress' - the title of which could have been 'English people are all evil' ('weirdly, in the 1890s, one of the Indian c… (View Post)

I have quite a bit of interaction with education - and at the secondary level at least this feels very plausible. It's not all teachers, and not all schools, but, well, if you're a white British stra… (View Post)