From the Wikipedia Page of Charles Moore:
Charles Hilary Moore (born 31 October 1956) is an English journalist and a former editor of The Daily Telegraph, The Spectator and The Sunday Telegraph; he still writes for the first two.
Moore is best known globally for his authorised biography of Margaret Thatcher, published in three volumes (2013, 2016, and 2019).
Moore, 63, is almost the archetype of a prominent chivalrous Conservative figure who would sooner chew off his own feet without the benefit of anaesthetic, than criticise women. In all the years I’ve been subscribing to The Spectator, I cannot recall him criticising groups of women, including feminists. (Fraser Nelson, the paper’s editor, is in a similar mould). So I was surprised to read the following in Moore’s column in the current edition of The Spectator:
At last, however, my wife will gain compensation under a Labour government. She is one of those ‘WASPIs’ born in the 1950s whose expected pension age is rising from 60 to 66 by the time she retires. Mr Corbyn is promising her and hundreds of thousands of others, most of whom are experiencing no hardship at all, a cheque for several thousand pounds. The reason for the pension age increase was equality between the sexes, so it is hard to see that any wrong was done. For a very long time, men got a state pension at 65, women at 60. Can the wrong committed by equalising them with men really merit an unbudgeted £58 billion compensation? Mr Corbyn could surely court even more votes by inventing a figure for the pensions foregone by the millions of men currently alive who were not allowed, unlike their wives, to retire at 60. [J4MB emphasis]
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