The society that you have been brought up in no doubt will effect your political and social ideology
For those of us who grew up in the 1980's and are probaly enjoying the curent series of Ashes to Ashes on BBC 1,this week's spectator magazine has a brilliant article entitled "Britain just got Weller: meet the Jam Generation"
Anne McElvoy writes:
What do David Cameron, David Miliband, Nick Clegg, Yvette Cooper, Michael Gove and (just about) George Osborne have in common? They are part of the Jam Generation: a powerful cross-party phenomenon laying the foundations of our political futures. The soundtrack to their formative years is Paul Weller’s tuneful, raucous songs of the 1980s: ‘The public gets what the public wants/ But I don’t get what this society wants/ I’m going underground
Anne is currently researching for Radio 4 on
a sudden generational tilt that is leaving the Baby Boomers who have run Britain looking sorely past their vote-by date
And
It explains why the Achilles heel of the present Labour leader is the fear that whatever other virtues he may possess or battles he wins, he may just be out of time. Evidently Gordon Brown is conscious of this: hence the rapid rejuvenation of the Cabinet and Mr Miliband’s loyal insistence that the ‘age and experience’ combination is going to be the winning one for Labour
So Gordon Brown may not be saved by listening top the Artic monkey's as was claimed last year but may need to dig out his new romatic clothes instead
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