The Great Pensions Robbery: How the Politicians Betrayed Retirement

Once Britain's pensions system was admired around the world. Now it is in tatters, and vast numbers of the country's citizens face the grim choice of enduring a poverty-stricken future or working until they drop. What on earth went wrong? Award-winning journalist Alex Brummer ventures into the corridors of power to find out how politicians bent on penny-pinching, a bullied and ineffectual civil service, and highly placed but unscrupulous individuals all played their part in fatally undermining a 100-year-old system. And, as he convincingly argues, the story is very far from being over.