The linen suit has gone away for another year, since tomorrow there will be an r in the month. And so ends the Silver Jubilee of the Golden Britpop Summer of 1995, halfway through my time in the Sixth Form. "Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven!" In the words of Jarvis Cocker.
Generation is key to understanding those who cannot fathom why there is not a Starmer-led Labour Government, or at any rate why a Labour Party led by Keir Starmer is not the promised 20 points ahead. Most people never acquire any historical perspective, and many of my age group still think that a Labour Government is normal, or at least relatively common. It is not, and it never will be.
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