There was a time when you couldn't get everything whenever you wanted it. Shops closed. Banks closed. Takeaways stopped delivering. The last bus went home. Television programmes finished for the night. If you wanted something and it wasn't available, you simply had to wait. For Gen X, that wasn't particularly unusual. It was just life. We grew up in a world of opening hours, closing times and the occasional handwritten […]

At least eleven people have been killed in a mass shooting at a house party in South Africa. Police said three armed perpetrators entered a property in KwaMakhutha, nineteen miles south of Durban, and opened fire on guests on Tuesday night. A woman believed to be pregnant was among those killed, while three other people were wounded in the attack. A total of 51 migrants have arrived in Dover on […]

There was a time when being unavailable was completely normal. If someone wanted to speak to you, they phoned the house and hoped you were in. If you went out, nobody knew exactly where you were. If you were going away for the weekend, you didn't spend the journey sending updates to everyone you knew. You simply went. For Gen X, that probably sounds less like a historical curiosity and […]