Weekend reading: No age pensioners

The first Weekend Reading of every month can be read by anyone on the Monevator website. Subscribe for free to our email newsletter or become a member to ensure you get the rest. A few years ago, my co-blogger The Accumulator argued that fears for the future of the state pension were overblown, writing: Governments stay in power by racking up achievement points with their supporters, neglecting those they cannot court, winning the spin wars, avoiding catastrophe, appearing more credible than the opposition, and kicking the really toxic cans down the road. Your pension is protected by that political nutshell. Perhaps it’s because they’ve grown up in an era of almost continual political upheaval, but Gen Z is not so sure. When you’ve seen your birthrights and much of your prosperity chucked overboard for a handful of famously hard-to-find magic beans, watched six UK prime ministers fall in a decade, and witnessed a cage fight held on the lawn of the White House, your political nutshells…