Untold stress and sleepless nights: Bill Howell’s story, recently featured in The i Paper, about his struggles to find a full-time role after 30 years as an engineer, was a depressing but increasingly familiar tale. Here was a man with more than three decades’ experience, made redundant during Covid and now, at 60, facing the brutal possibility that he may never again hold a full-time role. Rejection emails pile up. Recruiters ghost him. Despite ageism laws, interviewers cool when his age becomes clear. Many readers will empathise. The conclusion seems obvious: Britain has a problem with ageism.

And it does. Surveys show that nearly a quarter of people think employing someone over 50 simply doesn’t make business sense. One in five believe training older workers is a waste of money. A third think people become worse........

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