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“Preparing for an ageing Society” – the Lords speak out.

The wrinklies must pull their weight – we must be a tolerant society, a mixed economy. This is a report on a House of Lords report but is inspired by an article in the digital FT published a few hours … Continue reading

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Can demographics help us understand Putin’s game?

The following thread is from Simon Kuestenmacher Simon’s one of the clearest thinkers on Geography I’ve read, maybe because he writes like Abba sang, as a European in a second tongue (making his words stand out as each is thought … Continue reading

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Too Expensive to Keep? Is it time to break our promises to the baby boomers?

In a stunning lecture delivered without notes to a “senior” audience at the Oxford and Cambridge Club last night, Paul Johnson helped us ask these questions of ourselves. For his audience was by and large – precisely the entitled class … Continue reading

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