I'm 74 and have lots of reasonably unworried, mostly leftish, pensioner friends - we were all slightly embarrassed to get the full WFA, though we did take it. There will be Labour-voting people … (View Post)

Thanks to Omnium for the welcome back, by the way - I had a stroke 3 months ago but have recovered fully except for some increased vagueness about names. (View Post)

I got my masters' equivalent in mathematics with computing from Copenhagen, which included a mandatory philosophy course. That wasn't very popular, but the essence of it has remained with m… (View Post)

How much does one care? If it turned out that I was adopted, I'd be mildly interested, but basically the "parents" I was used to would remain my (late) parents, rather than someone I&#… (View Post)

FWIW I'm a pensioner in a fairly prosperous area, and know a lot of pensioners who have lost out. I don't know anyone who grumbles about the means-testing, as the previous arrangement was s… (View Post)