So, what’s all this fuss about women and pension age?  Why can’t the Government simply use money from National Insurance to smooth things over? Women Against State Pension Age Inequality (WASPI) describes itself as “… a campaign group that fights the injustice done to all women born in the 1950s affected by the changes to the State […]

There’s one area of public policy on which the major parties used to agree, but to which their commitment has lately become more ambiguous.  Just as well, because it’s completely ridiculous, being based on economic illiteracy at best and shameful deception at worst. Once, Twice … Three Times A Liability This policy is known as the […]

I saw a letter to a newspaper recently that described the UK Government’s pension arrangement as a Ponzi scheme.  It’s an observation that surfaces every so often.[1]  The claim isn’t daft at all, but it’s also not quite the whole picture. As a response to this, I’m publishing a short series of articles on pension provision in […]