Hobsbawm makes it possible to say that this period, and those days, were indeed the “good old days” in objective reality. Alan HuntWe always were captured smiling in the “good old days”, because we were always told to smile for the camera shot. Anthony KilleenThere is an old saying: “These are the good old days. There were no “good old days” where the majority of people had an adequate (note: not good) standard of living. The good old days.

Source: The Guardian July 11, 2021 12:56 UTC