35-50 is the new baby boomer. As a tail-end baby boomer I was always mildly embarrassed that there were so many of us that everyone else would be condemned to a lifetime of Thunderbirds repeats and documentaries about Hendrix. But a funny thing just happened in the UK as a result of Cameregg winning the election. (One's Head Boy, the other is the Maths teacher who tries a little too hard to be trendy). I don't know what to call them but it seems that 35-50 year olds are now dominating the cultural landscape. This begins to explain the sudden emergence of nostalgia for the 80s and a mixture of media, advertising and the arts specifically targeting moderately well off, moderately well adjusted people in this age group. The Times has just done a special on them and called them "Cleggerons". As a baby boomer this sounds way too much like Mysterons as if they're some dangerous alien. Of course what's really happening is that the current crop of journalists fall exactly into this group and they're just talking about themselves as usual. There's a catch though. The 80s weren't a particularly bad or boring decade but all the good bits happened at the start and the end with a bit of a black hole in the middle. It's bookended by The Clash and Ebenezer Goode but what the hell happened in 1985? Greed is Good and the worst excesses of Thatcherism, that's what. Oh and Duran Duran. So I hope all you Cleggerons enjoy being reminded of what it was like being 18. But personally I've got no wish to re-live the 80s and I look forwards to a little Pre-Millenial nostalgia when that one comes around.