I was talking to a community radio station today, which is by and for older people in Birkenhead. A TV news crew had been in to film them and asked questions like “how old is your oldest volunteer?” and ran with the line “at 83 you’d think Margerie would be spending time worrying about her pension and making cups of tea, but here she is volunteering at a radio station”.

Could you get more stereotypical and patronising and unthoughtful etc etc?? (not to mention the lazy journalism)

So yes, I like what Eliza Gregory has to say!