The Bruges Group spearheaded the intellectual battle to win a vote to leave the European Union and, above all, against the emergence of a centralised EU state.
The Triple Lock is under increasing attack with strident demands for older people to stop destroying the future for young people. Beveridge's National insurance plan was intended as a means of guaranteeing subsistence. He envisioned a twenty-year phased introduction and was totally opposed to a system based on tax. He stated that the Employers cont...
It was, from what I gather, George Bernard Shaw who made the famous quote that "Youth was wasted on the young". Now I am in the later years of my life and look back I can see how I wasted my youth, although I must admit to having a good time spending my earnings on booze and sports cars. It was not until I was married and into my thirties, when wor...