Is The State Pension Unaffordable?
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Alex, I have something to tell you. Go. I'm increasingly worried about my hundred days challenge. Why?
What's happened?
Well, what it's maybe what's not happened. I mean, I'm supposed to be doing this big swim that we were talking about on yesterday's newscast, um uh off the west coast of Scotland, from a little island to the Isle of Arran, and my colleagues who are doing it w coincidentally doing it with me, have set up a a chat group uh uh and they're talking all things like tapering their training. Are you just not doing
any of that?
I don't know what that means. I'm slightly concerned that I have, you know, not really thought this through. How
is the Iliad coming along? James I've just got every faith in your challenge and I have got Iliad news in that I felt so guilty. I felt so guilty after we discussed the fact I hadn't started reading it that I've started. Huh.
Oh well that's great. And actually, we have a message here. Hang on, we have a message about these um challenges from this is from Andrew. Just finished listening to your fascinating episode on Monday the 14th. Uh and thoughtful discussion on AI developments. Thank you, Andrew. That's nice of you. While I ruminate on those, may I offer a suggestion to help Alex with her Hundred Days Challenge. Straight out of the BBC stable of wonderful podcasts, may I recommend the wonderful Natalie Hayden. Stands up for the classics episode, They Are Really Good, I really like these, where she does the whole of the Iliad in twenty eight minutes, ably assisted by counting from Adam Rutherford. That may help as a primer, or, if necessary, a last minute substitute.
Yeah.
I love that. That's brilliant. And also I totally love those stand up to classics and I haven't heard the Iliad one, so neither have I. I'm gonna listen to it. I'm gonna listen to it. We actually had another one from Hilary who got in touch who said, I strongly recommend you read this version, and that's the a translation of the Homer Iliad, this epic ancient Greek poem by Emily Wilson. Hilary says, absolutely brilliant, a actually very readable, and then she goes on to say, Love the show, and good luck to Jane. James with your big swim James. We'll look out. Well, yeah. Yeah, in Lamlash, we will look out for you as supporting my daughter and other assorted academics doing it too.
Oh hello Hilary. Well you can fish me out. Thank you very much. But today we're going to be talking about the news that the state pension is likely to top thirteen thousand pounds a year. And that has really, I don't know, reignited a debate about whether the whole thing is affordable or whether those increases rather are affordable and whether the so called triple lock is here to stay. And that's what we're going to talk about, Alex, isn't it, on this episode of Newscast. Newscast.
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Hello, it's Alex in the newscast studio. And it's James in the Glasgow Newscast Studio. And just to let you know that in the second half of the episode today, we're going to be discussing this big report which was released on Tuesday, into whether concerns about Lucy Letby could have been acted on sooner by the Countess of Chester Hospital, where she is convicted of having murdered seven babies and attempted
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–13:43
2
What is the new state pension figure and why is it causing debate?
13:43–20:21
3
How does the triple‑lock mechanism work and what are the latest earnings figures?
20:21–26:21
4
Why do economists say the triple lock may be financially unsustainable?
26:21–42:53