Spirit of the age

Students should be subjected to airport-style searches to stop them cheating in exams, MPS said last week. A growing number of students are being caught using smartphones, smartwatches and sophisticated “cheat tech” gadgets in exam halls. The last are easily bought online, and include computers designed to look like basic calculators, and earbuds so small they are all but invisible. “Cheat on tests with absolute discretion,” says the marketing blurb for one such device.

Millennials have been rebranded Generation Hopeless, thanks to a new survey suggesting that a fifth of under-35s don’t know how to change a light bulb, while more than a third struggle to read a map.