VIEWPOINT
Jeremy Paxman
As some pensioners struggle to make ends meet while others live the good life, thanks to a huge retirement fund, our columnist believes it’s time to level up
‘The
great thing about retirement,’ said a friend a few days ago, ‘is that you don’t have to give a flying fig about the rat race any longer.’ (Actually, he used a stronger word than fig, which began with the same letter but had an additional character.) And I like fig, or more accurately figs, however hard they may be to grow in an English garden. I have twice tried – and twice failed – to cultivate a successful crop, each time losing the race to the wasps. As a metaphor for working life, one could do worse than a fig.