DiaryKenneth WebbSeptember 26, 2025Common-sense, London Times, Farewell to an old friend, Generation ZComment

Generation Z

DiaryKenneth WebbSeptember 26, 2025Common-sense, London Times, Farewell to an old friend, Generation ZComment

DIARY

Generation Z

(formerly published as ‘Farewell to an Old Friend’)

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Written in 2021, I bring this forward merely as a reminder in light of what Southampton, Hampshire has been undergoing over the past six months, the hooligans being teenagers, mostly girls.

The trash of BBC teen-bop series over 30 years about life in a Comprehensive School has done irreperable damage to the attitude of young people. If it’s good on Waterloo Road then it’s good enough for me!

The latest series runs this week. A classic teaching aide for more violence, more upheaval.

I wonder how many of these people who produce these societal-breakdown dramas have their own kids privately educated? If I look at their salary levels, I have a pretty good idea.

PUBLISHED in the London Times as an Obituary, no comment or footnote is required.

We are a very peculiar people. We stand indicted.

When right becomes left, and left becomes right, when normal becomes abnormal and abnormal becomes normal, when that which is wrong is deemed right, and that which is right is adjudged most definitely wrong, then we are in the scales and being weighed … and how does that dictum go? and was adjudged to be found wanting’. Sorry Generation Z. I know you’re slow on the uptake. That means you’ve not hit the high bar, or any bar for that matter, excepting, of course, the few.

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First written 13 March 2021 and last run 6 June 2022

Please note that I am not the person who wrote this Obituary even though I can recall a time when ‘common sense prevailed’.

In this morning’s news (6 June 2022), we now have Generation Z, a useful title, I think, for the five step-children.
KTW

Kenneth Webb

Ken Webb is a writer and proofreader. His website, kennwebb.com, showcases his work as a writer, blogger and podcaster, resting on his successive careers as a police officer, progressing to a junior lawyer in succession and trusts as a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives, a retired officer with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, and latterly, for three years, the owner and editor of two lifestyle magazines in Liverpool.

He also just handed over a successful two year chairmanship in Gloucestershire with Cheltenham Regency Probus.

Pandemic aside, he spends his time equally between his city, Liverpool, and the county of his birth, Gloucestershire.

In this fast-paced present age, proof-reading is essential. And this skill also occasionally leads to copy-editing writers’ manuscripts for submission to publishers and also student and post graduate dissertations.