Mary Wakefield Mary Wakefield

Why don’t my generation care if Britain fails?

Or: how my best and nicest friends are to blame for long-term unemployment

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issue 07 June 2014

In my late thirties, I have become patriotic. It’s one of those things that’s happened with age, like cooking to freeze, plumping cushions and thinking policemen look too young. My heart stirs at the sound of a marching band and at the thought of great British inventions: the London sewer system, steam engines, float glass.

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