Johann Hari debunking the myth propagated by Tory front-bencher David Willetts, in The Pinch: how the baby boomers took their children's future - and why they should give it back, that, well, what the title says. A program on the naughties, recently broadcast on the BBC (I think) claimed the same thing. Hari reminds us that 1) we are all living longer and 2) we are fitter in older age but still encouraged to retire (and then, all to often, to waste away lonely and decrepit in a retirement home some- or any-where).
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-as-britain-ages-will-generational-conflict-dominate-our-politics-1928041.html
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