David Mitchell Decries Declining Respect for the Elderly

This week on the SoapBox, David's gone and gotten himself all het up about elderly people.

And with good reason. Old folk today are a strange lot: some of them fought in the war, some of them managed to wriggle their way out of it. All of them survived it, obviously, in order to beget us.

But there's something not quite right about the way we think about old people, and as we look to the future what does it hold for them? If anything?