Youth today

This morning I announced an exciting news bulletin to the office at large: Argentina is up to its old tricks trying to get the Falkland Islands back again. Suckers for punishment.

I expected this information to provoke a degree of interest and lively debate. Instead it provoked blank stares. The existence of the Falklands has escaped their notice it seems, along with the 1982 conflict in which Argentina tried to assert sovereignty over the 'Malvinas'.

It's true that in 1982 the births of some of my colleagues probably still lay years distant in the future. But then, I wasn't present during the French Revolution and yet I still know about it.