When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.
As you know, Social Security functions under the premise that today's workers will help finance benefits for retirees and that these workers will then be supported by the next generation of workers paying into the same system.
I think British science is becoming more like American science - and then there is everybody else, I'm afraid.