'Gen Z Express' | Letting teenagers drive trains isn't a crisis - it's common sense

The UK government’s decision to lower the minimum age for train drivers from 20 to 18 has triggered an all-too-familiar reaction in parts of the media. GB News’s Eamonn Holmes responded with performative concern, painting the move as a risk to public safety as his co-host performed a caraciture of a teenager, buoyantly making their way down a railway platform.

They somehow stopped short of calling it woke nonsense.

Gen Z Express was the banner on Mike Graham’s Morning Glory show as the host pointed out “a lot of people think it’s a bad idea”.

It's the latest in a long line of faux-panics about young workers - one minute they’re “snowflakes” with no work ethic, the next they’re too young and reckless to be entrusted with anything remotely serious.