Tag: generational-equity
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I’ve added the main fringe meetings I plan to be going to onto flock together and added my personal feed from that website onto my sidebar. If you’re a Lib Dem blogger, why not do the same? Personally, aside from the day job I’ll be busy promoting my chapter on intergenerational equity in Graham Watson/Liberator’s…
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Hear me now! The Big Issue Radio Show has posted some excerpts from the edition I did a couple of months ago (I’m on all the links dated 24 May). Listen to me going on about the BNP and, in particular, Hands Off Our Future. Alas, my remarks about Mark Oaten are lost to posterity.
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No, not the ugly mug who arguably just got us kicked out of the World Cup, but Josephine Rooney, the latest pensioner who has been getting all excited over the thought of being under the jackboot of Joan “the freak” Ferguson (only to be frustrated when a do gooder went and paid her council tax…
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Just got back from doing The Big Issue programme on Resonance FM alongside Alex Runswick/One Perfect Rose, Nick Edwards/Londonist and presenter Mark Hanson. If you missed it, which you probably did as I didn’t exactly flag it up in advance, you didn’t hear my launch of Hands Off Our Future, my latest project. Have a…
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No shit Sherlock: The study, by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and Bristol University, published today, is the biggest of its kind undertaken in Britain. It paints a picture of a generational divide fuelled by higher education costs and the collapse of company pension schemes – with 42% of adults now with no pension and…