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So much better when the life expectancy of an average male at birth was 61, ie 1940

I used to get similar crazy dreams on my anti depression medicine. Mostly stopped once I got off the medication but crashing off was rather.... stressful, far from recommended. The worst bit was waking up exhausted, now I just wake up and wish I didn't wake up again. Oh well.

Can they keep him?

It's propaganda mixed with facts, always the same with the best propaganda.

Adult men playing with imaginary friends, but you must play with them in the right way or the imaginary friends might get angry.

It does until, all of a sudden or slowly, drip by drip, it doesn't. The 2008 crash took years of booming a stock market good times in the lead up. The housing market has been inflating massively above average wages for 45 years. Crunch points take time, we are in one.

Someone forward this to Andy?

Drink the poison.

Hi Ed, can you please make sure you add in the caring provided by the family with zero compensation. I'm sure I could have provided better care to my mother with dementia if I didn't need to work full time. Both financial support and flexible working laws would have helped.

Most of the co2 reduction is the dash to gas and away from coal, that's both the market and the government stopping the support of coal mining and a bunch of other reasons. It's never just one thing. Saying X is only caused by Y while ignoring the rest of the alphabet makes no sense.

The stacks of money in the banks can have BOTH a positive AND negative effect. It can provide a source investment funds to invigorate the economy but it also inflates the price of limited resources, such as the share prices ( 2008 bubble ) or rental property.

Yes. Some does, because of government regulation in the production of cleaner power.

It's not direct. It's not one to one. I didn't claim it was. However it still puts more fuel to the fire along with 45 years of governments depending on inflating house prices. Add the right to buy schemes that prevented the use of that council income to build replacement homes.

Lots of the houses for rent were funded by people putting money into banks, for their pension. It's the responsibility of a bank to maximise a return and rental investment was a great plan. Not only does the rent more than cover the mortgage but the property goes up in value. A negative impact.

Yes. Everything has positive and negative impacts. If you can't even acknowledge that then maybe we shouldn't talk.

And then we get Farage coming up with easy ' solutions ' to blame others and not ourselves. It's no surprise the right stopped processing and returning people and dumped the Dublin agreement, it gave them power through grievance.

The desperate need in governments for the last 50 years has been to maintain a high house price but this also has a negative outcome for the young along with green belt and nimby house building policies to inflate the prices. People can't afford to live and the economy is suffering.

Yes, for some the main source of retirement income is their own investments. But, have you ever thought about the negative impact of that pool of money looking for investment? How much did that collective pool lose because of Truss, 2008 or the dot com bubble? It can destabilise an economy.

Totally agree. Single point statistics are meaningless unless you want dumb headlines for propaganda purposes. Trends are all that matters, but that takes effort on behalf of the journalist and the reader.