Well, if we start having different pension ages for the sexes because of different life expectancy then people would argue for different pension ages on the basis of all sorts of factors - postcode, … (View Post)

I think it's generally considered to be particularly difficult to estimate the probability of unlikely events. They do happen from time to time - consider 2017 UKGE, Denmark winning Euro '9… (View Post)

But you could have phased it in. Wouldn't it have been better if Lady Carp's classmates only received one year more than her, and the year before that, two years more than her, etc? It'… (View Post)

The obvious thing to do is to tie it to life expectancy. But if we're talking about radical changes I'd also bring in the entitlement to a pension gradually so that you support people to wo… (View Post)

It does seem bizarre that anyone would think it was a good idea to have such a cliff edge in entitlement, rather than to phase it in, but we have all sorts of similar ugly artifacts all around the ta… (View Post)