Taking drugs with your children? Gen Z won’t even want to share a beer with us | Zoe Williams

Hanif Kureishi talks of cocaine nights with his kids. He makes the whole issue sound simple. I can't believe it is

Say nothing, she's going to use it," my 13-year-old daughter said to my 15-year-old son, like a Miranda warning. It was the week after the novelist Hanif Kureishi had tweeted: I've had some great cocaine nights with my children, and I know friends who take MDMA with their kids, though this isn't something I would do, out of the fear of talking too much."

Before I even considered too deeply whether I'd ever take drugs with my kids - obviously this is a purely hypothetical, what-if question - it seemed useful to know whether they'd ever take drugs with me. Even though they said nothing, in case I used it, I knew the answer would be no. They're very anti-drugs, for which I blame/thank the school.

Zoe Williams is a Guardian columnist

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