Sex, drugs, music and a pension: why 1948 was the luckiest year to be born

• Launching of NHS meant 'cradle to grave' care• Pensions and house prices also good for 1958ersFree healthcare, free schooling, free love – and now early retirement free from the financial woes that plague the rest of us. Could there be a luckier year to have been born than 1948?As pensions fall off a cliff, the smug 61-year-old is planning the next safari or cruise. Nourished and nurtured by a "cradle-to-grave" welfare state and protected by final salary, the holy grail of ...

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