Similar Posts
Why supermarket prices really became sky high in the UK
Posted onFaisal IslamEconomics editor BBC There has been more than a bitter twang in the glasses at British breakfast tables. Only five years ago, a typical supermarket own-label carton of orange juice could be bought for 76p for 1 litre. It now costs £1.79. That’s a rise of 134% since 2020, and it’s up 29% just…
We need working-class voices to enrich culture
Posted on“Sometimes we get we get caught up in talking about why we need to include people from the North East, or people from working-class backgrounds, for the ‘sake of the arts’, but voices from working-class backgrounds have always enriched culture for the better because they have different stories to tell.”
Bank boss sorry after describing workers as lower value human capital
Posted onDiscussing how automation was likely to lead to thousands of job cuts at the bank at a recent conference, Bill Winters said it wasn’t about cost cutting but “replacing, in some cases, lower value, human capital, with the financial capital and the investment capital that we’re putting in”.
