Sam Byers, Perfidious Albion: "In an ever-complexifying world, simplicity was a much sought-after and increasingly finite commodity, and people had a tendency to grab it where they could find it. For some, this took the form of what was effectively a culturally approved regression into infantilism. Teddy, for example, owned at least one adult colouring book, framed world events as extended riffs on Harry Potter, and had once told Hugo that constructing spaceships out of Lego helped him brainstorm. For others, it manifested as a form of nostalgia in which it was assumed that everything had been so much simpler before it all got so complicated."
Matthew d'Ancona, In It Together: "The nostalgia many felt on learning of Margaret Thatcher’s death in April 2013 was partly a yearning for clarity and definition. As if by instinct, the late Baroness framed policies and political arguments in rhetoric and metaphor that cut through to the country’s cerebral cortex, its heart and its guts. She provoked love and hate – and not much in between – precisely because everyone knew what she was up to."