It's not merely a question of age: The men who won the league titles in Germany and England this year, Jupp Heynckes and Alex Ferguson, are 68 and 71 respectively.
Conservative MP David Nuttall, who proposed the motion, argued there were more than 40 million people of voting age in the UK who had not been consulted on the question of Europe.
While her mother insisted that Jessica's age was not a factor in the crash, aviation experts question whether children should be allowed to fly planes, even under the close supervision of a flight instructor.
But it has not cracked the problem of inner-city poverty, nor the biggest social question of the age: how can an excluded social class find its way into the mainstream?
Thus, my question this morning is akin to the age old dilemma relating to whether or not a tree falling in the woods actually makes any sound if no one is there to hear it.