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Thursday 22 November 2012 Ageing and pensions
Fiona Alderton
In defence of the Liverpool Care Pathway
The panic spread by hacks and politicians about end-of-life care in UK hospitals needs to be tackled head-on.

Tuesday 24 April 2012
Alka Sehgal Cuthbert
What’s really behind the crisis in caring?
Last night’s BBC Panorama showed how grim some care homes are. But more bureaucratic monitoring is not the solution.

Monday 10 September 2007
Ken McLaughlin
Look on the bright side of 'later life'
Ignore reports that depict millions of elderly people as the victims of abuse or mental illness. Getting older is better than it's ever been.

Sunday 15 July 2007
Chris Dalby
How China respects
its elders
With 144million over-60s, China is having to devise new ways to care for its elderly. Chris Dalby reports from a retirement home near Beijing.

Monday 5 March 2007
Phil Mullan
A demented approach to the ageing population
Scary headlines about a 'dementia timebomb' expose today's miserabilist view of the human success story that is longer life.

Monday 5 June 2006
Nancy McDermott
There’s more to life than avoiding death
Philip Roth’s new novel Everyman explores what happens when we obsess too much about life’s final ‘reality check’.

Thursday 8 December 2005
Phil Mullan
Ageing and the ‘pensions crisis’
Never mind the Pensions Commission: we can afford the future without saving our pennies and keeping pensioners in poverty.

Friday 29 July 2005
Phil Mullan
Don’t raise the state pension age - scrap it
People should be able to choose when and how they retire.

Tuesday 18 January 2005
Jennie Bristow
What’s wrong with the World’s Oldest Mum?
It might be selfish and unnatural - but a woman in her 60s should have the choice to have a child.

Friday 29 October 2004
Phil Mullan
Turner report: an old story
The 'pensions crisis' is not the result of demographics, but of our leaders' miserly attitude towards the elderly.

Friday 15 October 2004
Phil Mullan
Ageing: the future is affordable
The real problem in the 'pensions crisis' is not demographics, but our mean-spirited attitude towards the elderly.

Wednesday 21 April 2004
Jennie Bristow
An ‘epidemic’ of elder abuse?
How the abuse industry is victimising old people.

 

Time for a serious debate about the welfare state

Has welfarism gone too far? Is it time to trim this massive machine? And more importantly, shouldn’t it be trimmed for the *right* reasons - that is, not in order to save the state money but as a way of protecting communities from the negative impact of constant welfarist intervention?

We’ll be debating these issues at the next session of our spiked drinks events at Portcullis House in London on Monday 3 June at 6.30pm. Find out more here.



23 May 2013
Woolwich: a knife crime, not an act of war
23 May 2013
Liberty comes out
against press liberty

17 May 2013:
The Star Trek hype? It’s illogical, captain.

17 May 2013:
Don Draper: it’s time to buck your ideas up

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