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When did we start to think of society primarily as a collection of age cohorts Take any recent attempt to capture the people of Britain and we tend to be shown a block strafed with three great horizontal divides: one canyon between 58- and 59-year-olds generation X and boomers , a second great rift stanley bottles betw stanley mugs een the ages of 42 and 43 millennials and gen X , and yet another unbreachable gap between 26 and 27 gen Z and millennials .Within each block, by contrast, you will be told that a group encompassing some 15 years and all levels of society is practically homogenous. Members of generations are accorded the same agenda, the same set of advantages and disadvantages, and even 鈥?like a new branch of astrology 鈥?the same personality. Im not a millennial, a friend told me recently, though his date of birth put him smack within that cohort. What he meant, it turned out, was that he thought of himself as a stoic.For the past decade or stanley termosky so, social problems have been framed increasingly as generational ones. Having identified these groups so vividly, it seems to be hard for us not to put every social analysis through this beguiling filter. Take, for example, the UKs growing problem of wealth inequality. Rather than looking at it in terms of class, say, we now reach first for the generational sieve. Differences in wealth, particularly in housing, are framed as a gap between boomers and the younger generations.This, of course, captures something important generational analysis isnt tot Npir Hunt chosen as wartime PCC chief
The judgment handed down by Lord Justice Laws doesn t merely crush the case of Gary McFarlane, the evangelical stanley thermobecher Christian sacked by counselling service Relate for refusing to give sex therapy to gay couples; it goes out of its way to demolish former archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey s stanley fr intervention. But does it also remove more vestiges of any established religion from the law No judge could possibly say that an archbishop of Canterbury was a self-important and alarmist twit who has no idea what he is talking about. Instead, Lord Justice Laws said that Lord Carey s observations are misplaced 鈥?It is possible that Lord Carey s mistaken suggestions arise from a misunderstanding on his part as to the meaning attribu stanley cup ted by the law to the idea of discrimination 鈥?the proposition that if conduct is accepted as discriminatory it thereby falls to be condemned as disreputable or bigoted is a non sequitur. But it is the premise of Lord Carey s position. There is worse, from Carey s point of view: These considerations, I believe, refute the applicant s argument as to the meaning of discrimination.聽But they do not confront deeper concerns expressed in Lord Carey s statement and in Mr Diamond s argument.聽These are to be found for example in the references to an alleged want of understanding or sensitivity on the part of the courts in relation to the beliefs espoused by Lord Carey and others: a lack of sensitivity to religious belief 鈥?These concerns are formulated at su |
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