We’re being ruled by a 1980s left-wing student elite

We are now governed by people who were left-wing students in the 1980s and early 90s. This is one of those facts that you try to forget, like getting older in general, but which – occasionally, suddenly – hits you in the mush. It’s fine in the normal run of things but every so often I remember that these left-wing students are in power and I get a rush of panic and horror, and emit an (internal) scream.

Eighties student Tory haters have matured into Labour politicians and Labour’s useful idiots

I was a student then as well you see. Gold Label at 50p a bottle in the Union bar. Pamphlets, pamphlets, photocopied pamphlets, everywhere. And what a soundtrack. That Petrol Emotion and their 1987 semi-smash ‘Big Decision’ – ‘Economies gets weaker, Reactionaries stronger, You gotta agitate, educate, organise!’

Or the toe-tapper ‘Breadline Britain’ by the Communards; ‘Where the sick don’t stand a chance, Where fascism leads a new dance, Where they’d privatise your mother if given half a chance’ – all this in an incredibly wealthy country with a high (and rising) standard of living.