Age

Life, for all its struggles, offers us the chance to be part of something glorious

Narratives of progress, freedom and liberation cannot overcome all limits

Critique has become more common but the Hollywood hierarchy remains intact

Alienation has encouraged the normalisation of childishness

Fewer young people supporting more old people has become an unsustainable situation

We’re a long way from touchstones One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera

Middle-aged women are routinely ignored and dismissed by society — it is time for that to change

On the demonisation of middle-aged women

The quiet comforts of local community

The old like to think they had it harder, but secretly feel they had it better, too