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Inflation down? But cost of living shooting up up up!!!

Wednesday – Thursday blog

Great celebration for our useless government. Apparently UK inflation is down from 2.8% last month to 2.6% in March 2025 compared to March 2024.

But I suspect that very few people actually know what the inflation (CPI – Consumer Price Index) figures include and what they don’t include.

Here’s the […]

Trump tariffs – panic, collapse, recession aaarrrrgggghhh!

Friday blog

Here’s a chart of the FTSE 100 stocks over the last week:

Hence much panic and screaming ‘Trump has destroyed the world economy’ and ‘we’re all going to die’ from the mostly Trump-hating mainstream media.

But here’s the FTSE 100 for the last 10 years:

Oh. Why the current panic? Things don’t […]

Why are so many people so angry and bitter?

Sunday-Monday blog

I know readers don’t come to my blog to hear me moaning and complaining about my own unimpressive life. But I thought I might mention just one thing.

I wrote an article for THE DAILY SCEPTIC. The article was based on a blog I wrote a week or two ago and explained […]

Spending takes the high road and tax take takes the low road

Sunday-Monday blog

I thought I’d just feature one chart which I doubt the mainstream media will be too enthusiastic about showing.

The chart comes from the ludicrously-misnamed Office for Budget Responsibility. The upper line shows projected government spending and the lower line shows expected government revenue from taxes:

I’ll leave it up to you […]