Britons in their thirties are stuck in a dark age
Youth is wasted on the young. But wealth is wasted on the old
Pity the millennial. Greying at the temples, thinning on top and thickening round the middle. Once a shorthand for rebellious youth, now even the prime minister (born in 1980, uses more than two fingers to type) falls into this increasingly aged category. The typical millennial is haunted by Instagram adverts for fertility treatment, wills and Viagra.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “The dark ages”
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