When it comes to work, age isn’t just a number
Despite the risks highlighted by Biden and Labour’s plans to force peers to retire at 80, setting a cut-off age is not a simple matter.
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Political discourse has been focused on whether, at 81, US President Joe Biden is capable of a second term – or even manage a blunder-free public appearance, says the writer.
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Emma Jacobs
At 91, Mr Alf Dubs has two measures guiding his decision to continue as a Labour peer in the UK’s House of Lords.
The first is personal: can he make a contribution, particularly on refugee issues, an area he has some expertise on, not least because in 1939 he fled Czechoslovakia on Kindertransport to arrive in Britain.