Iain Duncan Smith wants us to work until we drop. But we are not machines | Stefan Stern

A thinktank chaired by the Tory MP suggests raising the state pension age to 75. But there’s more to long life than removing ‘barriers’ to workWhen Oasis’s Liam Gallagher sang about how he wanted to “live forever” I don’t think he meant putting in some extra shifts at work in his 70s. Many of us are, of course, living longer – if not forever – but ideally we should be able to enjoy this greater life expectancy, not see it as a threat or a phy