When the 1930s Met the 1970s

Our decade is not so much the Roaring Twenties as the Pouring Twenties, with a rising probability of world war

The 1920s were Roaring, the Sixties were Swinging, and the Nineties were Cool (as in 'Cool Britannia'), but what will historians call the 2020s?

As we pass the halfway mark, it's a bit too soon to say for sure how this decade will be remembered. But — unless things drastically change in the country we used to call Great Britain — it's not likely to be fo…