Invest in youth, or pensions? — that is the question…

The time bomb ticks — and politicians are only fuelling the fire

Recently in the UK, along with many other advanced economies, political parties have begun to turn to pensioners for votes. Yet again, the story is one of wasteful universal systems feeding the popularity politics machine, with the ‘triple-lock’ pension guarantee locking up huge sums of public money and the winter fuel allowance burning through capital. (Not even remotely sorry.) To finally get to…