Twenty-two years after Oasis sang, “All I need are cigarettes and alcohol,” the young are abandoning both.
Every generation likes to bemoan the excesses and irresponsibility of the young. This should stop. The youth of today – the “new young fogeys”, as we call them – are the best-behaved generation since the social and cultural upheavals of the 1960s. Hard work has, it seems, replaced hedonism. In an era of £9,000 university tuition fees and insecurity in the workplace, caused by a combination of the financial crash, competition from overseas workers and the rise of new technologies, many young …read more
Source: New Statesman
