Bear with us...
Bear with us... Credit: ITV

Welcome to Refresh – a series of comment pieces by young people, for young people,  looking  for a  response to Britain's biggest issues

Love Island is back, with the women bronzer and the men buffer than ever before!

Your reaction to that last sentence says a lot about you and the Britain you experience.

If you were watching the TV at 9pm on Monday's launch night, there’s a good chance you were watching either a documentary on the Suffragettes on BBC1, a documentary on the Coronation on ITV1 or Love Island on the upstart ITV2. I couldn’t think of a better breakdown of British media culture if I tried.

The audiences sought are obvious: the intellectual historian mixed with the feminist, the popular...

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