The latest ingenious idea for addressing Britain’s generational divide came this week from a Mail Online reader. Commenting on an article about Waitrose’s £8 avocado-shaped Easter egg, which avo-ficionados have naturally rushed to purchase, they suggested: “Most millennials should be put down. They do next to nothing for this country and are too soft, allowing all sorts of things to go on that wouldn’t have happened with the stronger previous generations.”Physical strength aside, who would survive the cull, I wondered, given that the definition of millennial is the subject of such fierce debate. Broadly speaking, it is used to refer to people who were born between the early 1980s and the mid-1990s; some say it is 18 to 34-year-olds, others 20 to 35-year-olds, while…

Source: The Times March 24, 2018 00:00 UTC