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The former librarian has spent more than 50 years compiling the Roud Folk Song Index, cataloguing 25,000 traditional songs. So how did he do it? And what exactly <em>is</em> a folk song?
The satire — unashamedly broad, gleefully crude — portrays the comic travails of hapless proles struggling to makes ends meet. Inflation is out of control; meanwhile, heartless corporations continue to make fortunes off the backs of the hard-working poor (sound familiar?).
Early 1980s resistance to province’s draconian laws that led to calls for a general strike was a complex and delicate united front.
On thursday, on this channel, and she was saying, the inflation measure doesn't reveal the full story, because it is a basket of the average person's goods, it does not, it hides the fact that for some households, 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 ...
The investment which would have helped households to transition to other forms of energy and they cut 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 the w...