Britain once rioted over the price of bread. What would it take for us to confront greedflation today? | Andy Beckett

Britain once rioted over the price of bread. What would it take for us to confront greedflation today? | Andy Beckett

[ad_1] This country’s rate of inflation, the worst in western Europe, is everywhere in most people’s lives: in our anxious shopping and conversations, our late-night fears and fraught pay negotiations, our cancelled or rationed pleasures, and our sense of Britain’s shrinking possibilities. After the pandemic, Brexit, and years of austerity and political chaos, to be…

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Biggest day of industrial action in Britain as teachers, workers strike over pay

Biggest day of industrial action in Britain as teachers, workers strike over pay

[ad_1] London: Britain on Wednesday faced what has been dubbed the biggest industrial action in a decade as teachers, university lecturers, train and bus drivers and public sector workers went on a strike to demand better pay conditions. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s official spokesperson admitted that the mass strike action will prove “very difficult” for…

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