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Rod Liddle

We’re all sulky toddlers now – even when launching space probes

To judge from X Factor and recent Twitter storms, the nation’s mental age is four, and dropping

22 November 2014

9:00 AM

22 November 2014

9:00 AM

I wonder how long it will be before we actually crawl back into the womb? The average mental age of our population stands at about four. A decade or so back it was surely higher — maybe six or seven, I would guess. But we have regressed with great rapidity, as if we were characters in a Philip K.

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