For more and more people, retirement is anathema. Just ask Malaysia’s new PM
Leave aside his recorded antisemitism, his homophobia, some hundred billion of missing ringgit on his watch and a habit of imprisoning political opponents, and there appears to be much to celebrate in the election of Mahathir Mohamad as prime minister of Malaysia. Principally, in some quarters, that Mr Mahathir, who just became the oldest leader in the world, will turn, in July, 93 years young.
Even accepting the slightly different demands on Mr Mahathir, as he sets about crushing a former protege and liberating an ex-enemy whom he had imprisoned for sodomy, this important demonstration that 93 is the new 73 is likely to be welcomed (as it was, as an inspiration, on the BBC’s Today programme) by the increasing numbers of older British workers who intend never to give up their jobs – and not necessarily for financial reasons.
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