Summary
SAY what you will about Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, their government has presided over an extraordinary but little-known phenomenon that should put joy into male hearts throughout the country, literally and figuratively. In the past eight years, British men have enjoyed a 20 per cent drop in mortality rates, the biggest improvement since records began in 1924.
Much of this is down to having fewer strokes and detecting cancer in time to treat it. But suddenly, British males are no longer the poor relations of Europe. According to the Office of Health Economics, the independent body that collates Britain's health statistics, male Britons are now dying off less quickly than our cheese-eating, wine-drinking fellows across the Channel in France.See the full content of this document
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So Much to Do, so Much Time to Do It In
A male born at the time of the 1981 census could expect to live until he was just shy of 71. By the 2001 census, 20 years later, a newborn male could expect to live to 75.7, or an extra 4.8 years. The downside is that Tony and Gordon have taken your pension away and want you to work longer. On the other hand, if I gav...
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