School taught us a lot of things. Some useful. Some confusing. Some completely impossible to apply in real life unless somebody urgently needs a compass or a recorder performance. But the most useful skills most Gen Xers ever learned usually came from somewhere else entirely. Parents. Jobs. Friends. Trial and error. Or complete panic. Because growing up in the Gen X era meant learning practical life skills whether you wanted […]

Britain has invented some genuinely world-changing things. The World Wide Web. The telephone. The jet engine. The light bulb. Chocolate bars that mysteriously shrink every year. But while the big inventions get all the attention, there are loads of underrated British creations that quietly made everyday life better without getting the recognition they deserve. And Gen X grew up surrounded by many of them. Some were practical. Some were strange. […]