The idea that an entire generation became comfortable with silence sounds dramatic until you sit with the sound of an empty living room and realise the drama is understated. The 1960s and 1970s did not invent solitude but they rewired how people expected to encounter one another. This piece argues that silence from that era … Read more
People born in the 1960s and 1970s grew up in a Britain that felt less managed and more elective than today. That sentence is intentionally vague because lived experience then was messy and contradictory. Some children had full time togetherness with parents and neighbours. Others lived through economic shocks and parental absence. The point is … Read more
There is a pattern here that Google Discover loves and real people feel in their bones. People born in the 1960s and 1970s often treat privacy like a private possession not a public performance. This is not nostalgia or stubbornness. It is an uneasy, lived reaction to the century of change that shaped them. I … Read more
There is a particular stubbornness in those who were teenagers in the 1960s and 1970s. It is not simply nostalgia for vinyl records or a fondness for the fashions of their youth. It is a habit of mind that often looks like steadiness a steadiness born from living through cultural rupture while still being forced … Read more
There is a quiet stubbornness in people born in the 1960s and 1970s. It is not the loud certainty of triumph or the confident pose of celebrity. It is a steadier thing a sense of who they are that predates feeds and follows and the constant performative loop of online audiences. In this piece I … Read more
I remember the acid smell of vinyl warming under a late summer sun and how news arrived with the authority of print and the gravitas of a broadcaster who had actually left the studio to be where the story was. There was no instant applause meter back then no platform that measured our worth by … Read more
There is a kind of stubborn, low noise competence encoded in the habits of people who grew up in the 1960s and 1970s. It is not dramatic. It rarely shows up on motivational posters. But it surfaces, quietly and annoyingly effectively, when something real goes wrong. This article looks at the ways those early cultural … Read more
There is a stubborn, quietly competent cohort walking through towns and parks across the United Kingdom who do not respond to endless pep talks. They were born in the 1960s and 1970s and one thing is obvious when you watch them in a supermarket or at a school gate. They do not require constant motivation … Read more
I have an image in my head of a small back garden in provincial Britain where a child is told to sort out a stubborn bicycle chain. There is no screen to ask for help no automatic tutorial no group chat. Someone gets grease on their hands learns to fidget and to fix something that … Read more
The last century keeps teaching us things we refuse to unlearn. The 1960s and 1970s did more than invent music and fashion. They taught practical muscles of patience that most fast culture now mistakes for laziness or naivety. This is not nostalgia. It is a case study in tempo. If you want a clearer head … Read more