Gen Z would rather eat yoghurt than fight, but can you blame us?

IM GOING to war? For Rishi Sunak? Give yer' 'ead a wobble! I've got things to do!" So said 23-year-old TikToker Charley Marlowe in a widely shared video she posted to the platform over the weekend. "I'm gay," she continued, with her Mancunian lilt.

I'm Northern I will play them cards!" You can't help but laugh. If anyone is going to make a joke about the potentiality of an impending world war, it's Gen Z. Marlowe is not the only one - 26-year-old content creator Ayamé P uploaded a similar video.

"I'm sitting here naked, eating a bowl of yoghurt," she begins, "reading about how we might have to go to war? They want to send me, a little girl... to the frontline?" All of this conscription chatter started last week when General Sir Patrick Sanders, chief of the general staff, warned that Army reserves were so depleted that we "may have no choice" but to conscript as the country remains "absolutely not ready" to ward off a threat from Russia.