Suzanne Harrington: Were the 1990s really better, or are we just romanticising the past? 

Just as older people look back on the 1950s as an extended song-and-dance scene from Grease rather than what Henry Miller termed “the air conditioned nightmare”, as a member of Gen X, I do the same in relation to the 1990s; I euphorically recall it. 

Noel Gallagher (left) and Liam Gallagher (right) of Oasis, during a photocall at Wembley Stadium, in 2008.

When people hark back to the good old days, you can be sure they’re suffering from euphoric recall.

It’s not dissimilar to feeling broody because you’ve forgotten what giving birth actually feels like — pushing a camel through the eye of your very own needle — and only remember the good bits rather than the eye-watering reality.