The 'New Tunes' argument is that the world has changed, not just incrementally but qualitatively, that Britain and other advanced capitalist societies are increasingly characterised by diversity, differentiation and fragmentation, rather than homogeneity, standardisation and the economies and organisations of scale which characterised modem mass society ... we have witnessed a qualitative change, which has shifted the centre of gravity of the society and culture markedly and decisively in a new direction (Stuart Hall and Martin Jacques, 'Introduction', in New Times: The Changing Face of Politics in the 1990s). l am going to strongly resist the urge to bring significance and profundity to the coming of the millennium (Judy Davis, HQ Magazine, Summer 1992/93) Has the -world changed or have I changed.' ('The Queen is Dead', The Smiths, recorded in 1986).