Actually, WAV, I would argue that there's been a decline in social standards; it is, after all, only ever a matter of spin & interpretation, and if given the choice of living back then or now I know which I'd choose. But then again, born as I was in 1961 and coming of age in the degenerate mid/late 1970s when flower-power was well & truly wilted & everything we did was in direct opposition to the old-guard reactionary imperialistic establishment that still held sway, maybe I'm part of the problem. Whatever the case, there is no going back to the dark days of England's land of hope & glory post-war day-dreaming, rather onwards to the glorious uncertainties of an as yet unspecified future, or no future after all...