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hello and welcome to the programme which brings together columnists from uk newspapers with the foreign correspondents who write, blog and broadcast to audiences in their home country from the dateline: london. this was the week when sue gray delivered her report into whether downing street partied during the covid lockdowns — did the gray report deliver? we learnt the likely impact of surging energy prices — a doubling of the numbers in fuel poverty in the uk. the goverment�*s answer to it — throw money at the problem. is it proportionate — or inflationary? and what about ...

or inflationary? and what about those other sharply rising bills: is inflation stalking the globe? to discuss all that, in the studio are: the american journalist stephanie baker, a senior writer with bloomberg markets. steve richards, a political commentator who presents the podcast rock and roll politics; and ian martin, who founded and edits the news website reaction, and is a columist for the times. straight in. at the end of the week, much predicted and much debated, where is the prime ministers position now? he where is the prime ministers position now?— where is the prime mi...

And so, in the early 805, margaret thatcher could use unemployment as a way of controlling inflation. people were desperate to get jobs and take low—paid jobs to do back in. that mechanism is not available now. it is the opposite. they need to get people intojobs. to drive the economy that people hope will emerge from this and the economy that might make us more resilient to this type of pressure. those who opted out during covid—19 coming back into it. this is been a feature of the covid—19 economy is that people just stopped driving things like caps. 0pted out of the economy in the mid...

Things like caps. 0pted out of the economy in the midst of the come back in. and you're right we make the china point because it's not just that there's this huge shift with the word ukraine that undoes the global order. it also, we're at the global order. it also, we're at the end of essentially a 25 year process or model of how western economy is run. from globalisation to the globalisation and they are connected to ukrainian things and you start to see countries that are allies sticking together in shorter supply and lines of supply greater emphasis and trade security. that disruption and i...