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Work has changed a lot since Gen X first entered the workplace. Some changes were definitely improvements. Some are slightly confusing. And some make older generations sound like they survived employment during Victorian times. Because back then, offices, shops and workplaces had rules that now seem completely unbelievable. Yet at the time, everybody just accepted them. Mostly because there was no internet to complain about them publicly. Here are some […]

The world changes fast now. Technology changes. Music changes. Television changes. Apparently phones now fold again for reasons nobody fully understands. But despite all that, some traditions still survive. And honestly, Gen X hopes they never disappear. Because traditions are the small familiar things that make life feel comforting. The routines, habits and moments that somehow stay important no matter how modern everything becomes. They connect generations too. Parents pass […]

Britain runs on unsung heroes. Not celebrities. Not influencers. Not people doing motivational podcasts while standing near rented sports cars. Real heroes. The everyday legends quietly keeping British life functioning while asking for absolutely nothing in return except maybe a decent cup of tea and a working pen. Gen X grew up surrounded by these people, and honestly, society would collapse within about three days without them. Here are just […]

At some point during adulthood, many of us started pretending to enjoy things we definitely hated as kids. Olives. Blue cheese. Red wine. Sparkling water that tastes like somebody whispered “fruit” into it from another room. Gen X especially became experts at this. Somewhere between paying council tax and buying kitchen appliances voluntarily, we convinced ourselves certain foods were “sophisticated.” And for years many of us quietly forced them down […]

Not every trend deserves a comeback. For every brilliant bit of nostalgia Gen X remembers fondly, there’s another trend we’re perfectly happy to leave buried somewhere in the past next to broken fax machines and forgotten New Romantic haircuts. Because while the 70s, 80s and 90s gave us amazing music, iconic films and some unforgettable TV, they also gave us some truly questionable ideas. And somehow, at the time, many […]

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. […]

There was a time when you bought something… and then owned it. Simple. You bought a CD. It was yours. You bought a car. Also yours. You bought software. Yours again. You even bought a TV and somehow managed to watch it without creating an account, accepting cookies or signing up for a free trial that mysteriously became £9.99 a month. Gen X remembers this world well. Now? Everything feels […]

There was a time when starting a conversation was easy. You’d mention what was on TV last night, complain about the weather, ask somebody what music they were into or debate whether anyone could actually beat Mike Tyson in Punch-Out!!. Now people stare at phones in silence while pretending not to notice each other. Gen X grew up talking to people because we had no choice. No WhatsApp. No social […]