Heather du Plessis-Allan: Don't touch my pension

Let's talk about this business with the pension age.

Chris Luxon has said today twice that he wants the pension age to go up to 67.

He said it once on Kerre’s show this morning, and then at a post-budget lunch speaking to business leaders, he repeated it and he told them that this is basically going to be election policy for National next year.

Karl du Fresne: Greedy baby-boomers? I'm not so sure

Is there anything less edifying than a debate between generations about who had it tougher? Judging by a barely civil clash on TV3’s The Nation recently, probably not.

TV3 lined up three “millennials” – members of Generations X and Y, born after 1980 – against three baby-boomers. The younger cohort was out to prove they had been disadvantaged by political and economic changes over their lifetime. The boomers, predictably, weren’t having a bar of it.