Georgia: A sizeable number of people are not working because of a health condition or long term sickness. She says that's not good for them as it means lower quality of life and pressure on the economy. The only thing that seems clear here is to address the problems in the workforce, she adds. Georgia thanks very much for your time Jason.
A surprise peace agreement should permit desperately needed humanitarian relief for millions in the region of Tigray—but there are reasons to doubt the grinding conflict is at an end. Britain has a problem that other rich countries do not: its over-50s are flooding out of the labour market. And our correspondent attends an unexpectedly tame “crypto rave”.
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