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Particularly on low incomes, they are being affected much more steeply. so, a basket that has champagne in it, does not deal with the family who does not drink champagne, just has to buy basic food and basic food stuffs like rice and pasta have gone up massively in the last six months. well, i am not enough _ of an economics expert to take that basket and analyse it bit by bit and i_ notice that chris giles in _ the financial times, the economics editor there, had a bit of a two- and fro with ja...

We do not have much in the way of gas storage, so we have to buy and pay a premium price as a result, because we are almost buying to use it, rather than buying it in advance, butjust picking up on this question of inflation, i was talking to the food writer, jack munro, on thursday, on this channel, and she was saying, the inflation measure doesnt reveal the full story because it is a basket of the average persons goods, it does not, it hides the fact that for some households, particularly on l...

All the energy saving measures and as a result, british households are _ paying 2.5 billion more on their energy bills than they would have done had those programmes remained in place. so, you know, these short—term measures have long—term effects and we are really exposed to fluctuations in the wholesale price of energy in a way that many— countries are simply less exposed to. isabel makes a very good point, we have a long—standing problem about energy storage. we do not have much in th...

Reliable scales of energy that we need here, but as i said, crucially, there is no mention of fracking. tory mps will not be happy by that time i think that signals that no matter whatever boris johnson maintained at, that is not going to be part of the solution for the energy dilemma.— be part of the solution for the energy dilemma. be part of the solution for the eneri dilemma. , a , ., energy dilemma. very quickly, front .a , e energy dilemma. very quickly, front -aie of the energy dilemma....

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(Wild Sound/One Little Independent) The novelist’s little known early days on the folk scene are explored on this album of songs and readings ‘Light touch’: Polly Paulusma. Photograph: Annie Dressner/Wild Sound/One Little Independent ‘Light touch’: Polly Paulusma. Photograph: Annie Dressner/Wild Sound/One Little Independent Sat 10 Apr 2021 11.00 EDT The folk-singing interests of the novelist Angela Carter are usually confined to the margins of literary commentary, but a...

Emission impossible unless political climate changes January 29, 2021 — 12.05am Save Normal text size Credit: Most thinking people could not fail to be alarmed by John Hewson’s article about Australia’s emissions targets’ catastrophe. Scott Morrison is captive to both his backbench and the fossil fuel lobby he will continue to do nothing to address the issue (“Emissions verdict is catastrophic”, January 28). To make matters worse, although the government is very...