I'm just going to have a little rant - because I'm sick of reading in the papers how we're bottom of the world tables in happiness, bringing up children, just about everything.

In my 'Life on Mars' day I was a teenager. At 17 I was drinking in pubs with my older mates. If I got caught I was in trouble. If binge drinking had been invented then I would have got caught and been given a b*ll*cking by the police and my parents.

Nowadays I run a sports club and one of our main income streams is 18th birthday parties. If someone who is 17 drinks, they are not to blame, I am. I lose my licence. They have to pay £300+ for doormen. They have to turn up with ID. We give over 18s wristbands so they can drink alcohol. (Obviously they get their mates to buy it at the off licence and drink it on the way in..)

How can people take responsibility for their life and actions if everything is 'someone elses' fault?

A young girl cold called me the other day from a litigators office. "Lots of people don't realise they could make claims" she told me, "Are you a car or motorbike driver".

I told her I didn't agree with the concept she was peddling but she didn't understand me. She asked if I would pass her name on to my colleagues. "Are you taking the mickey?" I asked her, "Are you suggesting I give out your number so my employees can make claims against me??". "I see what you mean, she said".

She was too young to have a real go at, but when getting money from people for nothing is so easy (go on Big Brother, sleep with a footballer and sell your story, claim against an insurance company) why would you want to work for a living?

My mum doesn't walk very well. She has a disease affecting the nerves in her leg. She tripped over a hoover wire in a shop and hurt her ankle. For months. Everyone asks if she is going to sue. She says she doesn't do that.

Do you?
How did we get here?