Generation me students etc.

ydekm wrote:Must be like Kieran says... worked in government so it seems natural that MPs have email addresses... everyone is accessible by email these days.

Yep pretty much. What one person considers general knowledge may not be the general knowledge of another person.

My peers and I who went through the same schools together, have zero to little knowledge about history, because there were no compulsory lessons on it. I found out what Tiananmen Square was, last year.