10/03/26
This is a life and death story for the UK – so why is it being brushed under the carpet?
Columnist Aditya Chakrabortty asks this question in his article for The Guardian published on Friday, 6th March 2026.
He read an ONS (Office of National Statistics) report that Alan Walker, a retired professor at the University of Sheffield, referenced in a letter to the newspaper.
"The figures show this: a child born this morning in Britain can expect to be in good health only until they are 61. The last 20 years of their life will be blighted by illness: dodgy hearts, painful joints, an inability to get about. Our healthy life expectancy has been dropping for years; it is now the lowest since 2011, when records began."
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