The rise in gas prices isn’t just pushing up energy bills, it’s affecting food prices too – and the worst is yet to come. Tesco chairman John Allan has predicted that food prices could rise by 5% by spring as energy and other costs feed through to the high street. Food and drink manufacturers have […]
The vaccine rollout may have stalled but Britain is still world-leading in at least one area: obesity and nannying policies designed to squash it. A sugar levy on soft drinks. A ban on junk food advertising during the day and online. A £100m fund to ‘support weight management services’. A patronising rewards scheme which hands out […]
Regulation enthusiasts around the world have set their sights on big tech. In the UK, the outlet for this newfound appetite to rein in Silicon Valley is a brand new quango called the Digital Markets Unit [DMU], set to form part of the existing Competition and Markets Authority [CMA]. Specifics about the DMU’s remit are […]
Last month, BBC One drama Years & Years gifted us a speech for the ages in which we – that is, the entire population of the world, apparently – were retrospectively lectured about how we let everything go to pot thanks to our unquenchable desire to make things better. “Every single thing that’s gone wrong, […]
