In case you're wondering what the cool music is on the TV adverts for Sony Centres (the ones with the CGI and the rainbows), it's "Sonic Boom Boy" by Westworld, which was one half of Generation X (the half that didn't make it into GenX)* plus Ms Westwood on vocals. GenX in turn split up into Billy Idol, and the other half of GenX (being a quarter of the original Generation X line-up...

Members of the post-war "baby-boom" generation own almost half of all the personal wealth in the country, a new book has calculated.

I've posted before about how this current generation - my generation - have got to be the most selfish generation ever to have held power in Britain. I say this because we seem to be forever changing things to suit what we want and, in doing so, deprive future generations of the opportunity we had to enjoy things we took for granted. For example, my generation enjoyed free tertiary education....

Conference, I stand here today ready to lead: a new generation now leading Labour. Be in no doubt. The new generation of Labour is different. Different attitudes, different ideas, different ways of doing politics.

Half way through his coffee as he enters the briefing room, the Minister for Schools tells me he is a "cup half full, not half empty" kind of guy. Here to announce the 2008 Sats results after the marking fiasco of recent months, can Jim Knight convince journalists the situation was indeed half full and not half empty? "It's just like being in an exam", he remarks as 20 silent reporters lift u...

Half way through his coffee as he enters the briefing room, the Minister for Schools tells me he is a "cup half full, not half empty" kind of guy. Here to announce the 2008 Sats results after the marking fiasco of recent months, can Jim Knight convince journalists the situation was indeed half full and not half empty? "It's just like being in an exam", he remarks as 20 silent reporters lift u...

Commenting on figures revealed today showing the number of under-16s admitted to hospital due to illegal drugs has risen by almost half in a decade, Liberal Democrat Health Spokesperson, Sandra Gidley said: "These alarming figures reveal a wasted generation. How many more lives will be lost before the Government takes effective action? "As a society we can’t go on seeing so many young lives ...

This is not the Wales Cannot Generation. This is the WalesCan Generation. The Independence Generation. ... full story

Rod Liddle is on masterful form: “It is the hallmark of the Myersons’ incalculably selfish and feckless generation, perhaps the worst generation we have ever witnessed in this country. Both Julie and Jonathan were born in 1960 (as was I, incidentally). This is the generation which has managed to spend the hard-earned cash built up over years by its parents and also has busied itself spending a...

The time of Wales being held back by its lack of self-confidence is ending. Our nation is growing in confidence with every generation. This is not the Wales Cannot Generation. This is the WalesCan Generation – The Independence Generation. www.walescan.com to promote the benefits of an independent Wales. WalesCan is part of the party’s independence initiative and will offer the people o...