“Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television. Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. Choose fixed-interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage. Choose a three-piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who you are on a Sunday morning … Choose life … But why would I want to do a thing like that?”

So said the character Mark “Rent-boy” Renton in Irvine Welsh‘s classic Trainspotting. But “the disaffected, heroin-addicted young men immortalized in Irvine Welsh’s bestselling novel are now in their 40s” and, as one can imagine, things aren’t pretty.

“What happened to the Trainspotting generation?”

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