“A KitKat is now a luxury”: the looming death of disposable income
Prices are spiralling, limiting the spending choices of Britons across the country to the bare essentials.
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Leader: The return of stagflation
Rather than poorly targeted tax cuts, the UK needs a more generous welfare state to protect individuals from the living…
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Why the Tories can’t blame the Ukraine war for the living standards crisis
Households were already facing the biggest squeeze in 70 years before Russia invaded Ukraine.
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How phasing out Russian oil could deepen the cost-of-living crisis
Boris Johnson has spent a week trying to woo Gulf leaders in an attempt to secure alternative energy supplies.
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P&O proves Brexit has failed on its own terms
800 crew members have been replaced by “cheap agency workers from eastern Europe” overnight.
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Why the SNP’s economic strategy offers continuity not transformation
The muddled, contradictory shopping list is a consequence of the deep-rooted defensiveness of Scotland’s political economy.
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“There is no enforcement”: the awkward truth about the UK’s sanctions on Russia
British authorities lack the means and the will to pursue economic crime, campaigners claim.
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“I can save, travel, go on trips with friends”: Inside the new affordable rental homes for young people
A 33-home project is fighting housing inequality as tenants question Kirstie Allsopp’s “boomer mathematics”.
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