Brenda Pugh left work a few years ago due to a long-term health condition. She has osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis which requires joint replacement. Even now that her condition has improved, she thinks a return to work would be challenging.
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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