War, babies

New meme for you to be aware of: the looming generational conflict, in which (it appears) the children of boomers will be set against each other, tearing each other limb from well-clad limb, in an attempt to retain access to their free-born internships. That's apparently what's behind the tear-up in Greece...

Anyway, your reader:

Ruth Sunderland provides an overview

The Guardian says, class of 2009, go back to bed and prepare for lethargy

David Willetts does some thinking

and Nick Cohen puts the boot into Joan Bakewell, for no real reason.

Solutions? Christopher Buckley had a radical idea: a mandated age of death.