El Cid

I have never had a broken hip, but it sounds like a serious injury, did he have no family?

Just a flippant comment, have you got another reason why Germany would be left out of a list of European countries?

Is that 5% or 95%, what are you basing your views on?

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-the-best-and-worst-pension-plans-by-country/ Germany are below the UK

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-the-best-and-worst-pension-plans-by-country/ Germany are below the UK

Probably fake news put out by a Tory suporter.

64 Tory and 17 Labour, according to The Standards a few weeks ago.

What percentage of older people actually need to pay thousands for full time care, it was always a very small percentage?

Also, almost three-quarters of people aged 65 years and over in England own their home outright.

Some of the UK's biggest banks are raising mortgage rates as expectations of when the Bank of England will cut interest rates are pushed back. They are speculating that interest rates will come down before the interest rates in the USA, so money will flow towards the USA for those higher rates. Sunak needs lower interest rates before a general election and the BoE have promised that, so no going back.

Plus all the help with energy costs, which ordinary workers didnt get. Interestingly, if you look at the FTSE-250 which is mostly UK companies, those shares are lower now than they were 5 years ago. So it just goes to show, a story can be interpreted either way.

For pensioners, they got an inflation pay rise, they are the wealthy ones. So all the investment returns are over inflation.

But the sceptics could call that UK weather, not the global climate temperature. The UK could easily become colder in a warmer world. Global temperatures are certainly increasing at a worrying rate.

Might be a rubbish parent? I have a relative that is a teacher, she doesnt seem very good at teaching her own children, she now works in a school office earning a poor wage.

I have an interest in economics and climate change; I drive a minibus professionally; an expert would have studied those topics in depth. My Son is hopefully going to get a first in psycology, but being 23 he has very little real experience in the subject, but he knows 10x more about the science, compared to the man on the street.