Seventy-six and looking for your next gig? You'll get a warmer welcome at Glastonbury than at the supermarket | Zoe Williams

It's great that Elton John can still wow the crowds - but let's not pretend he's opening doors for other older people In a media landscape of wall-to-wall mean, where it is considered normal and proportionate to lose your nut over an imaginary teenager who wants to identify as a cat, or whip yourself into a fury that some stranger, somewhere, doesn't eat dairy, there is one personal remark that is off-limits: you can't call anyone too old to do a thing because it's none of your damn business. Tw...