'these times' being the crucial distinctor. I was a cub in the early '90s in a deprived ex-mining town in the UK. Fighting and bullying were rife. My parents

'these times' being the crucial distinctor. I was a cub in the early '90s in a deprived ex-mining town in the UK. Fighting and bullying were rife. My parents were warned by other parents they knew not to send me to the scout troop, as it operated more like a gang than a troop.