Opposing neoliberalism, austerity and privatisation is important for the left, but our vision for the future is fundamentally disastrous if we only ask for what we once had.

A ground-breaking report at Stamford University has today demonstrated that the elderly are actually just older regular people. Rick Parsons, coordinator of the decades long investigation said that the results of the study were “truly incredible”. “Whereas for a long time it seemed as though the elderly were some sort of separate species, unfit for…