Mmm, it says I'll live to 99 and a friend will live to 111! We are not taking it too seriously... It's interesting to play with the assumptions, though - diet and attitude (optimistic/pessi… (View Post)

In triple-lock sort of news, the Swiss have voted heavily (59%) for a trade union-backed proposal to increase the national pension by 8.5% from 2026. Opponents criticised it as a help-the-old-bash-th… (View Post)

Glad to try! I mostly grew up in Denmark and lived for many years in Switzerland, both of which have ID cards for everyone. A Communist in my early days and always on the left, I mixed with all kinds… (View Post)

Eliminating extremists is not actually possible, so it's (cynically) better to have an election promising to do it rather than a period where it doesn't happen. Cf. Heath and "Who gove… (View Post)

Well, as you're going back to 1980, I'll offer a view from the 1997-2010 period. It basically wasn't an issue then. I had one death threat, but laughably with the name and address of t… (View Post)