Why do oldies indicate – and young idiots in Range Rovers fail to? By Matthew Norman
Identifying the precise moment when the country’s regression towards developing-world status started is beyond me – and possibly beyond those far cleverer than me (not, admittedly, the highest of bars). But I have the nagging sense that this downward trajectory, which barely perceptibly began aeons before Brexit and has accelerated into a corkscrew spin, started when motorists came to regard the deployment of indicators as beneath their dignity. The theory will lack strong support from both the relatively sane and left-leaning historians. The latter would doubtless look elsewhere for the genesis of our national collapse. To that time some decades ago, for example, when the idea that the desires of shareholders morally outranks the needs of workers completed its journey from the crazier outreaches of the far-right think tank to the epicentre of mainstream orthodoxy. Who can say which of us is closer to the truth? But this I state...
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