All the single ladies
There is something admittedly off putting about the ever growing birth rate debate, which turns a lot of people off — including myself. It’s a debate that has been dominated by oddballs. More and more people of all political persuasions are slowly coming to recognise the unaffordability of the pension system and the broader welfare state will be in the near future without fresh bodies ready to take up the tax burden.
- ▪There is something admittedly off putting about the ever growing birth rate debate, which turns a lot of people off — including myself.
- ▪It’s a debate that has been dominated by oddballs.
- ▪More and more people of all political persuasions are slowly coming to recognise the unaffordability of the pension system and the broader welfare state will be in the near future without fresh bodies ready to take up the tax burden.
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| Original publisher | The Critic |
| Canonical URL | https://thecritic.co.uk/all-the-single-ladies/ |
| Publication time | Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:00:18 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-06-03T01:36:59.801Z |
| Last seen | 2026-06-03T01:37:02.272Z |
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There is something admittedly off putting about the ever growing birth rate debate, which turns a lot of people off — including myself. It’s a debate that has been dominated by oddballs. More and more people of all political persuasions are slowly coming to recognise the unaffordability of the pension system and the broader welfare state will be in the near future without fresh bodies ready to take up the tax burden. The more apocalyptic-minded among us are now imagining a total breakdown of aging societies, Mad Max warlords with zimmerframes, while the more selfish (read: me) are terrified of the real possibility of having to work well past the age of seventy. The best that can be said for the debate as of today is that everyone recognises that something must be done.
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