November 8, 2019
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Sometimes I wonder what the generation born in the first two decades of the 20th Century would make of this new-fangled millennium.
The majority of them entered a world without cars, commercial air travel, television or radio. The BBC didn’t exist, there was no electricity network and no telephone system. A letter might routinely take a week or more to travel more than a few miles and it would be nearly three decades before a publicly-funded health system was more than a twinkle in Nye Bevin’s eye.
There are a great many things that the war generation didn’t have and that we now do, but one commodity that wasn’t in short supply ba...