Our columnist had never lived the crazy, shoulder-padded dream. But it’s never too late to try…
"The first thing I can tell you about living in the Eighties is — it’s very cheering. There’s something about being offered cheese and pineapple on sticks — presented correctly, of course, as part of a cheese and pineapple hedgehog — while Addicted to Love plays in the background that takes you back to a simpler age. Possibly a more problematic age — this is the kind of lifestyle in 2024 that prompts online cries of “check your privilege” — but because it’s 1986 neither the word “problematic” nor the phrase “check your privilege” yet exists. And there is no internet. We have returned to an age where privilege was seen, simply, as brilliant."
Read the full story: https://www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-radio/article/jilly-cooper-rivals-1980s-caitlin-moran-pswzx7qzv
"The first thing I can tell you about living in the Eighties is — it’s very cheering. There’s something about being offered cheese and pineapple on sticks — presented correctly, of course, as part of a cheese and pineapple hedgehog — while Addicted to Love plays in the background that takes you back to a simpler age. Possibly a more problematic age — this is the kind of lifestyle in 2024 that prompts online cries of “check your privilege” — but because it’s 1986 neither the word “problematic” nor the phrase “check your privilege” yet exists. And there is no internet. We have returned to an age where privilege was seen, simply, as brilliant."
Read the full story: https://www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-radio/article/jilly-cooper-rivals-1980s-caitlin-moran-pswzx7qzv
