"For example, food purchases constituted roughly 50% of the index in the 1840s; food is less than 10% today.* The Cratchits could not have purchased most of the goods in today’s basket because they didn’t exist in 1843."

"Price indexes do not reflect the actual increases in the cost of living over long periods of time because the market baskets purchased by representative consumers have changed so much."

wouldn't the government always be the biggest threat, given that they have the biggest power ...? You don't have to believe that there is actually a significant threat in the moment to choose them from this list. This poll question raises more questions than it answers IMO.

Starmer (via Ed Miliband) has an excellent position on climate so this is kind of pointlessly slanderous.

Poor Charlie :(

still managed to be the hottest summer on record. Doesn't feel like it - never thought I'd feel short-changed by the climate apocalypse.

she went the whole Saxon, didn't even bother with the Anglo part. Volksgemeinschaft!

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

meanwhile @georgemonbiot.bsky.social thinks the gov is "extreme right". which is it? extreme right or extreme left?

although of course the recent choice of president is only going to exacerbate these price rises in the long-term.

I get that you're (ironically?) echoing unfair partisan attacks on Biden here but would be nice if you could also acknowledge that this is a direct consequence of climate change and has, well, nothing whatsoever to do with the choice of US president www.fao.org/newsroom/det...