Dumbing Down

[cloughie]

your point about Peel's age is very telling.

Going back to R3 programming, a successful, quality formula for a programme like "breakfast " shouldn't be beyond the wit of people in post in some of the country's most sought after jobs.
Sensitive knowledgeable presenters, interesting, varied music thoughtfully chosen with regard (in part) to the time of day.
A news bulletin perhaps.A weather forcast also.
And the latest news from St Mary's Stadium.
Easy.

You've got no chance of that until the Saints go marching into the Prem.

[Lateralthinking1]

Another old man complaining about the modern world.

Interesting Wallace but personally I don't identify with it. I am 49 and reserve most of my criticism for those aged between 30 and 70 who have created Britain - and its radio - today. Any failings in the younger are often not their fault.

[Wallace]

My own experience is that the older I get, the more I find to complain about - or at least that what my wife says who cautions me against it and becoming like Victor Meldrew. I might have encountered this on here:
"Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things." — D Adams

[Lateralthinking1]

"Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things." — D Adams

I like that quote and can identify with it culturally. Probably more like 32 than 35. The political invention of our age - and what a great word for it - was a problem from 16. Even then, "the new" was clearly a combination of systemic hooliganism and civil war. Two years later, I predicted that we were unlikely ultimately to get pensions and in old age would have to travel on horseback. The much brighter dismissed such comments as those of a nutcase. Obviously, I still stick to those views.

More recently, most of the liberalism in our culture and politics has been ripe for reassessment. More than 50% of it was disastrous in my view. Generally this would be expected of someone older and hence more conservative but I travel in the opposite direction. It is quite clear to me that the kind of conservative socialism that might have been associated with something like Methodism was by far and away for the better. I suppose that was in my world when I was born but not a feature of everyday life in Croydon.