They turn out to be 'opinionative, peevish, covetous, morose, vain, talkative' and wholly unable to remember things, therefore not 'repositories of history' at all.

While we may know that we have a new form of intergenerational inequality, favouring the old and squeezing the young, our political system still seems wholly unable to respond.

Although the union had pledged before the walkout began to feed strikers, it was wholly unable to fulfill this promise.