London, 1996: People can be nostalgic for the 1980s and 1990s but the facts don't always support the idea that it was a simpler, safer time. Photograph: iStock
When I was a teenager in the 1990s, I wrote a journal entry that began: “Dear older me.” I won’t go on, because of course it’s too embarrassing for words, but the gist of it was this: I was anticipating that my older self would at some point feel nostalgic about my teenage years, and I wanted to set the record straight by describing what was boring and unsatisfactory about them.
What I didn’t anticipate was that it wouldn’t be “older me” who would feel nosta
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