Youngsters have it easy

[BrilloPad]

Purge on A-levels revives 'gold standard' as one-in-four papers given top grades - Telegraph

25% get A grades? Back in my day in was 10%.

About time they bought back the cane too.

[amcdonald]

The difference is these days people pay to have the cane, so it's hardly a punishment

[Mich the Tester]

How can British people carry on whingeing about 'youngsters today'? Look at the Ashes, the Lions tour, Wimbledon, the Olympics, the World Athletics Champs, the Tour de France, some big golf competition I didn't watch, the brilliant innovations going on by geeks in and around Cambridge, the selfless guts of the Armed Forces, the worldwide success of British music and so on...are they not 'youngsters today'? Hmmm?

[Moscow Mule]

How can British people carry on whingeing about 'youngsters today'? Look at the Ashes, the Lions tour, Wimbledon, the Olympics, the World Athletics Champs, the Tour de France, some big golf competition I didn't watch, the brilliant innovations going on by geeks in and around Cambridge, the selfless guts of the Armed Forces, the worldwide success of British music and so on...are they not 'youngsters today'? Hmmm?

I think that today's media find it easier to concentrate on the feckless youth, and social media makes the feckless more visible.

I'm sure there were just as many successes and failures in the 1900s.

[bobspud]

How can British people carry on whingeing about 'youngsters today'? Look at the Ashes, the Lions tour, Wimbledon, the Olympics, the World Athletics Champs, the Tour de France, some big golf competition I didn't watch, the brilliant innovations going on by geeks in and around Cambridge, the selfless guts of the Armed Forces, the worldwide success of British music and so on...are they not 'youngsters today'? Hmmm?

^ THIS

I think we have forgotten, or been brainwashed that we don't do anything apart from finance in this country but we really do rather well.

[SimonMac]

How can British people carry on whingeing about 'youngsters today'? Look at the Ashes, the Lions tour, Wimbledon, the Olympics, the World Athletics Champs, the Tour de France, some big golf competition I didn't watch, the brilliant innovations going on by geeks in and around Cambridge, the selfless guts of the Armed Forces, the worldwide success of British music and so on...are they not 'youngsters today'? Hmmm?

Yeah but apart from that what have the Romans ever done for us!