Soaring inflation: the cost-of-living crunch

Published on January 6, 2022

Britain’s economic prospects were dire enough before “Putin’s murderous war”, said Will Hutton in The Observer – with rising infation, rocketing energy bills and new taxes to pay for Covid measures. “Now they are desperate.” Russia is the world’s largest …

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