Okay, even if you do buy into this 'no more retirement' lark ...where are the jobs for older people going to come from? Unemployment is already a problem. Throw all the retirees we've got now onto the 'hunting for a job pile' and what do you get? Ummm. Unless the Tory government has some great plan that is going to let everybody get and keep a job that pays sufficiently to live on, this plan is lopsided, to say the least.

And another thing ...if all the grannies and granddads who are presently using their retirement time to look after grandchildren, so parents can work—because parents can't afford to pay childcare ...well what happens when the free babysitters have to stay in paid work instead?

Think, people. Think.

I think I might disagree about Robert Maxwell. No, Maxwell didn't (to our knowledge) kill and physically torture people for fun. But that's not what a psychopath necessarily does. What they do is whatever they damn well please, and feel no remorse for any of their actions, and they enjoy holding power over people.

This is a man who actively tormented his employees ...hired and fired at a whim and enjoyed making his employees scared of him, scared of losing their jobs for no reason. He was a cruel man. He treated his family abominably, by all accounts, playing one off against the other. He was unscrupulous in his financial dealings, and left hundreds of people destitute. He stole the Mirror Group's pension money, and didn't give a damn. Nobody knows exactly where he came from or if he even ever actually HAD money in the first place. He just flung himself about as if he had, and people believed him because he could be charismatic when the mood took him.

From what I've studied about the Hare test and what I know of Maxwell, I'd say he might well have been a psychopath. If the notion took him to kill somebody, I don't think he'd have turned a hair. For all we know, he might have done. Even his own 'death' had suspicious overtones to it. Just disappeared in the ocean? Body 'recovered' and smuggled quickly into a grave in foreign parts? That sounds a bit off-ish to me. I think he's probably dead by now, but I wouldn't be surprised if he spent a few years hiding somewhere, laughing his head off at how he'd fooled the world.