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Life has been getting more expensive. Anyone in doubt (not very many people at this point, I think) need only look to the latest releases on the matter from the Office for National Statistics. In the latter half of 2021, households in all income brac

“It’s still too soon to forget about the pandemic,” says John Authers on Bloomberg. With “lockdowns spreading from city to city”, it’s time to get ready for “a Chinese shock to global growth”. Much of Shanghai, the world’s busiest port, has been in l

Russia used to boast that “it had never interrupted [natural gas] supplies to a European customer, even in the tensest moments of the cold war”, says the Financial Times. By suspending supplies to Poland and Bulgaria last week, Moscow has torched wha

“The world’s biggest consumer goods companies largely weathered the first quarter inflation storm,” says Dasha Afanasieva on Breakingviews. Results from Procter & Gamble, Nestlé, Reckitt Benckiser and Danone showed them all able to raise prices witho

The post-pandemic era has arrived in Singapore, says Daniel Moss on Bloomberg. Last week the city-state scrapped limits on group size and office working. “Many venues will no longer require folks to check in with the government contract-tracing app.”

Brussels has proposed a phased-in ban on all Russian oil imports as EU member states seek to reach agreement on a sixth package of sanctions following the invasion of Ukraine. European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said the ban would be i

Last week the government announced that it was yet again choosing to delay the introduction of post-Brexit checks on EU food and animal imports into the UK over fears that such checks would disrupt supply chains and add to rising inflation. It would

Matthew Lynn City columnist They don’t agree on who should and should not be allowed to tweet. They don’t see eye to eye on how the social-media platform should monetise its few hundred million users. Nor do they have much common ground on how a bu

Arm IPO a step closer: Arm Holdings has all but regained control of its “renegade” China unit, removing “a significant obstacle to [Japanese conglomerate] Softbank’s plan to take the UK chip designer public”, say Ryan McMorrow and Anna Gross in the F

unherd.com Over my lifetime, the “contours of respectable politics” have been defined by the path set jointly by Margaret Thatcher and the man she described as her “greatest success”, Tony Blair, says Mary Harrington. Like Thatcher, Blair was “anim

The price of key commodities has already begun to rise. The energy transition will take them higher There’s a lot of excitement in the industrial metals market at the moment. Prices have gone up due to supply chain issues, which have been made worse

The UK’s commercial property market has long been a magnet for both institutional and private investors, including overseas buyers who valued Britain’s stability and strong property rights. Then along came Covid-19 and widespread fears about whether

The news has been dominated by the war in Ukraine and the cost-of-living crisis. Sometimes it might seem as though the latter is entirely the result of the former, but in truth the cost-of-living crisis was already a fact of life long before Russia i

Children need to start learning about money from a young age. Whether it’s the budgeting skills we need to cope with the cost-of-living crisis or the long-term planning that helps buy a house and save for retirement, the attitudes we pick up in child

Business angels are spreading their wings. The Angel Investment Network says last year saw a record number of people registering as angels – investors who are prepared to back start-up businesses with funding and their expertise – and the number of c

In 2019, a new shell company was quietly set up in Delaware and named Lost Horse – after a Chinese folk tale about the vicissitudes of fortune. Soon after reps began cold-calling charities and nonprofits across America offering multimillion-dollar do

“I’ve come here nearly every day for nearly a decade, and the view is different every time,” said Chris Rushton of My Broadway Tours, as we surveyed the view from the top of Beacon Hill early one morning. As well as the light, the weather conditions

To fully understand the 2021 vintage, you must digest the uniquely challenging weather conditions during the growing season. A series of interlinked climatic occurrences shaped this vintage such that it cannot be compared to any previous year. Last y

Kirkby Wharfe, Tadcaster, North Yorkshire. A Grade II-listed, 17th-century stone house surrounded by gardens that overlook the village green. The house has beamed ceilings, exposed stone walls and a range of outbuildings. 5 beds, 3 baths, 2 receps, g

Blue is beautiful when it comes to diamonds. Two of the top three to have fetched the highest prices for coloured diamonds at auction are “fancy vivid” examples – the top spot still belongs to the CTF Pink Star, which sold for HK$553m ($71.2m) in Hon

This page has long been a chronicle of rich folk blowing their fortunes on a variety of ill-advised boondoggles and pointless trinkets. It’s their business what they do with their wedge, and our prerogative to laugh at them when they do it. But blowi

When the feds went into full moron mode in 2020, it was easy to forecast that inflation would be coming. It was just impossible to know when. Similarly, it has long been obvious that the high-flying, wealth-destroying tech companies were going to fal