The UK Pensions Crisis

At last, we have hard evidence of the reason behind the UK pensions crisis (the crisis that is about to hit my generation as more and more people are getting older and there are fewer and fewer young folk to pay into the pensions fund). A BUPA-commissioned survey this week revealed that Britons would give up sex if that meant they could live longer - see the report on BBC News here.

But then we always knew that Brits were not that keen on getting all hot and sweaty anyway (unless it’s to do the gardening). George Mikes in his book “How to be a Brit” has a chapter entitled “The British and Sex” and it contains only one line: The British don’t have sex, they have hot water bottles.