Labour and its followers have embraced the politics of childhood: lecturing, hectoring and nannying
Those of us who have spent our lives in and around SW1 have been known to become out of touch with the delights and dilemmas of everyday life in the rest of our country.
That is where the Lifestyle section of this great newspaper comes in. It is not, of course, primarily written for genuine fashionistas, foodies or internet “influencers”, whatever they may be, but for people like me who want to retain some sort of awareness of what normal non-obsessed-with-politics middle Britain is thinking. Out there in the Cotswolds, on the Suffolk coast, in the Yorkshire Dales, what are you eating, where are you travelling, how are you bringing up your families?
Even so, assiduous reader that I am, every so often I will read something that at first seems so weird, so alien, so different from the world as I have known it, that I’m left gasping.
Such, dear reader, was yesterday’s article suggesting that real people – actual sentient young adults – are willing to travel the world with an Apple Airtag attached to their baggage – so that their parents can see where they are at any moment, be it bar, beach or any of those more dubious spots that young people have been known to frequent on their travels.