Yoof of Today

Warning: Do not read on if you don’t like the words of Grumpy Old Men!

I love the programme ‘Grumpy Old Men’ on the BBC. Worryingly, I’m finding their words increasingly true. Today, however, I found myself uttering the words “it wasn’t like that when I was their age”. Today, I witnessed A-level students preparing for their performance exams, and they weren’t nervous. They weren’t anxious. They weren’t worried that the sense of ocassion wasn’t right. In short, they weren’t how people were when’t I were a lad…


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