Big Hair and shoulder pads v the Big Society and knee-pads

I am a child of the 80’s. Not by birth, you understand, but economically. I started work in 1980 in an international engineering company as a commercial trainee; the white collar version of the burgeoning YTS schemes. I was one of those big haired, shoulder-padded “young guns” that Thatcher’s Britain spawned. And I loved it. [...]

The times are they a-changing?

There is little doubt that there is an immense amount of attention being paid to today’s ‘youth‘. Whether we watch The Apprentice, get scared by anyone wearing a hoodie, are concerned about the options available to our kids leaving school or simply confused and slightly cynical by the ever-improving exam results, youth culture is high [...]