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The Bank of England has raised interest rates to 4%, supposedly to tackle inflation.
There is just one problem with this decision. The Bank knows that much of the inflation we are suffering is being driven by rising oil and energy prices, largely resulting from conflict in the Middle East.
It also knows that raising interest rates cannot reduce those prices.
So why is it doing this?
The answer is that the Bank believes it must suppress demand elsewhere in the economy to compensate for rising energy costs.
In other words, it is deliberately making mortgages more expensive, increasing business borrowing costs, discouraging investment and reducing household spending power.
And all this when people are already struggling with higher energy bills. That is problem number one.
There is, however, another problem. Higher interest rates increase costs for businesses, which can then feed through into higher prices. They can, in that case, add to inflation rather than reduce it.
The Bank is imposing economic pain to address a problem its chosen policy cannot directly solve.
That is not sound economic management. It is the consequence of an economic dogma that refuses to recognise the difference between inflation caused by excessive demand and inflation caused by supply shocks.
When will we learn?
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Buried on page 30 of 'Sir' David Bellend's report into antisemitism in schools in the UK it explicitly says there hasn't been a rise in antisemitism, only in anti-Israel sentiment. Astonishingly fraudulent crisis/debate, all to shield a genocidal state
In my lifetime I’ve never seen our government move so fast and decisively on any issue than it does on antisemitism
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this is even worse than saying nothing
Ed Sheeran speaks out after Macklemore was dropped from his tour for speaking out for Palestine:
“I am not complicit. I have my personal views on this devastating conflict. Just because I choose not to speak publicly, it doesn't mean I don't have them, and it doesn't mean I don't care. Nor does it mean I don't support causes in my own, personal way.”
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Irishman Aaron Rowe, support act for Ed Sheeran’s North America Tour will no longer continue with the show.
Fair play 👏🏼
Instagram - @ aaronrowe_
#FreePalestine
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War premium 14 September: In UK every litre of diesel costs 46.9p more than the day before President Trump started the middle east war; every litre of unleaded costs 34.4p more. Heating oil is up 44.6p/litre (UK) and farmers red diesel costs extra 50.2p/litre. Natural gas up 155%
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They took memory cards from us and made us pay for storage. They took CDs and DVDs and made us pay for streaming. They took software you could buy once and turned it into a monthly subscription. They took ownership, convenience, and basically everything that used to be a one-time purchase… then somehow made us pay for it every month.
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This is not managed decline, this is managed demolition of Britain's industrial capacity.
JLR plans up to 4,000 job cuts as Chinese rivals pile on pressure ft.trib.al/bdsL7C2
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This tweet is a shameful lie. I would rather eat a raw sea urchin in warm pondweed sauce than so much as meet Rupert Lowe (who reminds me of a dim man in a pub I once met, not of WSC) , and I would never under any circumstances endorse his frightful, nasty faction. Hope that is clear.
Journalist and philosopher Peter Hitchens has endorsed Restore Britain.
He says Restore Britain is the last hope this country has left, and Rupert Lowe reminds him of Winston Churchill.
Do you agree?
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Peter Hitchens has emphatically denied that he has endorsed Restore Britain, stating that he "would rather eat a raw sea urchin in warm pondweed sauce than so much as meet Rupert Lowe": x.com/ClarkeMicah/st…
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A Doncaster vicar comforts an anxious parishioner in a wheelchair as Unite the Right bully their way into his church. All because he stood alongside a counter‑protest. This should be on the front page of every newspaper this morning; it isn’t.
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Toxic politics - toxic men.
Police data has “consistently shown that a significant proportion of men arrested during far-right riots are already known to the police for domestic abuse”
theguardian.com/society/ng-i…
Don’t forget to stock pile tins for when this happens to the UK
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Glasgow podcaster James English guilty of domestic abuse after brutally attacking pregnant ex
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This is sensational 😂😂
Lumo announce partnership with PNE focused solely on the 5 away games in London but they don’t run a service back to Preston after 16:19 haha
Think you probably need to rethink that one, @LumoTravel 🤯🫣
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If you live in Birmingham you should never forget that Labour, The Conservatives, The Lib Dems and Reform all wanted this to happen to you.
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When my Dad was killed at Hillsborough I was just 6 years old, inside our home was dull of shock, devastation, me spending a lot of time in my bedroom whilst I listened to lots of crying downstairs and people coming and going.
My mum tried to keep life "normal" by still taking my to school but reality was that I had to go to school late and be collected early, because Journalists from a certain newspaper would hide behind cars to try and get my photo.
That S*n Front Page, from 19th April 1989, shaped my whole life.
It was the reason that I was bullied and taunted at school.
As I grew up and became increasingly curious about what actually happened at Hillsborough, I would use college study time and their Internet access to look for answers. My peers were producing power points on different child psychologists and the Children's Act, whilst I was producing them on Hillsborough and the cover up (totally unrelated to child care!).
The lack of candour, the lack of respect, the lack of compassion, rhe lack of privacy, the lack of duty of care from that S*n article contributed to the reason why I have spent my entire adult life fighting against a cover up, and it contributed to the fact that it took 25 years to have an honest, and transparent, death certificate for my dad.
Many Hillsborough survivors have taken their own lives.
A huge factor in Tradgey Chanting at football stadiums is a direct consequence of false news reports.
When Caroline Flack died, the world was devastated and the united message was "In a world where you can be anything.....be kind".
And now here we are again, this weekend has seen another young, intelligent, life lost.
Professor Jason Arday was hounded. Humiliated, Accused, Isolated.
We can not imagine the despair and turmoil that he must have felt to of been in a place where no longer being here was greater than living.
The culture of press in this country is diabolical, with false, libellous, articles and misleading headlines every single day and yet IPSO has not opened a single investigation for over a DECADE.
We CAN NOT only be outraged when this happens to someone we know, or when it takes another life.
Culture change only happens when many good people stand up to those who abuse their positions of power........be a part of that change.
Sign below and enough is enough.
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.@hackinginquiry @HackedOffHugh
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#HackedOff #dontbuythesun #Hillsborough #JFT97 #JasonArday #PressReform #MediaAccountability #Leveson2