My parents gave me a watch for my twenty-first birthday and it’s still in use all these years later. Now and then it gains a few minutes so when I got up this morning I thought that I’d do a time check with the BBC’s teletext service before changing the watch and all of our clocks to wintertime. Imagine my shock when I eventually worked out that the Beeb was still on summertime! A few minutes ago they were showing 1338. The rest of the country was at 1238, including those capitalist channels 3, 4 and 5.
Your taxes at work:
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Midweek 18th December 2024
That’s CPI, the one capable of being manipulated to suit………… Better measure? RPI. RPI at present is, 4.8%. https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/inflationandpriceindices/timeseries/doge/mm23