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

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.

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