Back in one day or another, we used to arrange many more income protection policies. They pay if you can’t work and you’re sick pay stops, which for most happens pretty quickly now. The two principal reasons for claims have always been 1. Back problems and 2. Stress, and any mention of previous problems with either would trigger exclusions or declines. It seems that little has changed and that if anything, the workplace has become more stressful, with or perhaps because of greater mental health awareness and less attaching stigma. There are many pretty awful employers out there and far fewer unions and the like to represent or help their employees. And far fewer salespeople selling often much-needed and potentially valuable protection plans; more’s the pity.
“Arrest of alleged spy raises questions around UK’s China policy”
If you’ve read Ben MacIntyre’s “The Spy and the Traitor”, you’ll know that Russia, then the Soviet Union, was recruiting both MPs and their staff left (of course), right and centre in the Cold War 60’s and 70’s.
