Britain has betrayed its children

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Britain has betrayed its children

Last year, the Financial Times reported from the village of Ichinono in Japan. In common with a lot of Japanese villages, Ichinono’s population is small, old and vanishing: just 53 people, most of them over retirement age. In Japan as a whole, the birth rate is 1.26, putting it well below replacement levels. Almost 30% of its population is over 65; 10% is over 80. But Ichinono is special. In 2022, for the first time in two decades, a child was bo