The question has arisen – what do we call the new decade? Decades of the 1900s all evoke images – the twenties, thirties, forties, fifties, sixties … but what do we call the new decade?

At least there can be no controversy over whether its a new millenium, because whatever else, were certainly not in the nineties.

We call could it the zeroes, but that doesnt evoke anything. Theres the nulls or the nothings, but thats all very negative.

I vote for using the British version of zero, and christen them …

THE NOUGHTIES