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Living longer is a risk for all cancers. A fat person who has died of a heart attack is at zero risk of cancer, while the thin person who has lived to grow old is at great risk. If we split causes of death in 4 categories. 1, death caused by overweight; 2, death caused by cancer not affected...

I think we've done more than just make a start. My father (born 1928) lived in a rented house with an outside toilet and had to leave school at 16 to get a job. He married at 27 and, because he was a chartered accountant and my mother a qualified teacher, could afford to buy a house with a...

I suspect you might be wrong there. What is often forgotten is that thin, healthy-living people suffer disproportionately from cancer and other illnesses, and especially all forms of dementia, than the fatties. Take a look round in a nursing homes next time you have the sad experience of...

How small? For example, the Morrison family used to own Morrison's supermarkets - would that be too big a company for one family? And if so, would you have to break up all the other supermarkets as well? What about Guinness? Should the Guinness brand have been hived off into loads of smaller...

The reason 25 years olds can't live like 75 year olds is because they haven't spent a lifetime working for their income. That's the biggest single reason why young people have less capital than old people, and it always has been. As for "jobs for life", that's risible. Do you genuinely...

The problem is that if you ban entrepreneurs from creating large businesses, you are also banning them from employing more people. Obviously with the likes of Elton John and Andy Murray and JK Rowling, hugely rich individuals, you can just tell them to give us all their money or leave the...

The reason Capital Gains Tax isn't charged on main homes is because to do that would be a massive drag on the housing market, by making it unaffordable to move. If you have a house worth £1m and you want to change jobs, or downsize because the children have left, or whatever, then you would pay...

One "hidden" fact from that first graph is that there are twice as many households now as in 1980. Partly population increase, but also the increase in the number of single people, presumably split-up families, and perhaps people leaving home earlier? Either way, the proportion of mortgaged...

When I see the student union bars closing down for lack of business, I'll believe that students are short of money. Can havig the option of going to university but having to pay tuition fees, be considerably worse than not having the university option at all? The idea that older people...