'The Mogs are misunderstood - they're unlike the previous older generation' - Toby Neal says
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About a pressing problem of our age - the modern old generation. The Mogs. Let's call them Moggies.
They are unlike any previous old generation, as brought home by the passing of Marianne Faithfull.
She was the Boudicea to their Iceni, an icon and a figurehead of her time, a woman who, according to the various tributes, encapsulated the spirit of the 1960s generation.
We won't go into those obituaries of Marianne Faithfull in detail because this is, after all, a family paper, but in summary she lived a life of sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll, and confectionery, although the last bit was an urban myth.
Marianne had an army of contemporaries. And they are among us. The young generation of the 1960s are the Moggies of today.
You can see them everywhere. Clogging up garden centre cafes. Hogging the middle lane of motorways. Mixing with the economically inactive in shopping centres on weekdays.
