Column by David in The Times.

I FIND, AS I GROW OLDER, THAT I AM perhaps not as up to speed with the Zeitgeist as I used to be. The rock subculture emo may, I think, have come and gone, and I’m still not entirely sure what it is/was. Web 2.0 is a phrase that I’ve noticed passing by in newspaper articles as if we all know what it means, but clearly I missed the explanatory one when it first arrived. I have yet – as a full-blooded modern male, I’m ashamed to admit this – to watch a single episode of 24 (although, as is the modern way, I do have the first series waiting for me in a box set, pining for that two-day-solid watching window), but I know that it is already passé, long jumped its shark, and that I should by now have moved on to Entourage. And, worst of all, I have only just started reading The God Delusion.

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Column by David in The Times.

A BIG OLD BABY-BOOMER WAIL WENT out last week upon the realisation that Sgt Pepper was 40 years old. It came, of course, with the requisite reverence towards all things Beatleish that has become such a hallmark of our popular cultural canon. I’ve always found the Beatles a bit twee, although I have noticed that saying so has recently become an opinion crime on the same level as Holocaust denial.

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