The anti-fireworks lobby is a symptom of our ageing society
Pet-owners are the most indulged class in the country.
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What Americans really think of Britain
Also this week: the deification of Kamala Harris and the cruelty of ageing in the US.
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What does an ageing population mean for the future of healthcare?
At New Statesman panel, organised in partnership with Biogen, looked at the impact of demographics on maintaining health and social…
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Why we urgently need a social care workforce plan
The sector has a major staff retention problem – policymakers and providers must work together to ensure workforce security.
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The Research Brief: why we need billions for social care
Your weekly dose of policy thinking.
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Joe Biden is too old to run again – but he’s still the Democrats’ best hope
The next generation of Democrats need to step up before he can step down.
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A transcendent singalong with Bruce Springsteen in Rome
Also this week: great journalists remembered, and a duck called Puskás.
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Joan Bakewell: “I can live with death – how odd”
As the broadcaster approaches 90, she reflects on her mother, the media and “her version” of her affair with Harold…
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The uncomfortable truths of Hag feminism
Assertive older women are treated like they shouldn’t exist.
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Joan Bakewell’s Diary: living with cancer, and the age of the grandparent
Medical progress is making us live longer – and grannies like me are being turned to for free childcare.
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The global ageing crisis is becoming unignorable
As Japan’s prime minister Kishida Fumio has warned, low birth rates will revolutionise society – and it is a worldwide…
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Do you want to live forever?
Anti-ageing drugs are bankrolled by some of the wealthiest people on Earth, including Jeff Bezos and Peter Thiel. Are the…
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David Shrigley Q&A: “I’m getting weak in my old age. I should start lifting weights”
The British artist on Stewart Lee, plasticine portraits and why you should be happy right now.
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We are living longer than our predecessors – policy must catch up
Why the government must fundamentally rethink its vision for our ageing society.
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How politics became the chosen hobby of retirees
The politicisation of the young has been widely discussed, but it is the politicisation of the old that has been…
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My footwear choices are a protest against encroaching old age
The mother of my children pointed to my shoes and said, “This is what mutton dressed as lamb looks like.”
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I’m grappling with ageing. It means I’m alive at least, but I don’t have to like it
A spot has sprung up on my forehead, and reminded me of the grim advance of time.
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The grey resignation: why the disappearance of older workers is an economic risk
There are now 208,000 fewer over-50s in the UK’s labour market than there were before the pandemic, and that’s a…
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America’s leaders are old. That’s a problem
Is it time for the US’s (literal) old guard to move on?
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How coronavirus exposed our society’s inherent ageism
The crisis has laid bare society's dismissive attitude towards the over-60s, but their role has always been important.
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