Economy

The multipack ripoff

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Yesterday I walked into ASDA and was confronted by an end-of-plinth display selling multipacks of Pepsi Max for £6.00. The packaging wasn’t clear how many were in each pack, so I assumed there were 24. But on closer examination it turns out they were selling 30 standard cans of drink for £6.00, or 20p per … Read more

The Austerity Myth

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I get annoyed when politicians and their sycophants in the media speak to me as if I have the intelligence of an eight year old child. And that is exactly what they are doing when they refer to the economic policies adopted by the Tories and their Lib Dem supporters as “austerity”. In fact even … Read more