Britain’s inflation rate is not falling fast enough
It remained stuck in double digits in March. Why?
Bread and circuses offered a path to social peace, according to Juvenal, a Roman satirist. Britain’s latest inflation data, published on April 19th and covering the year up to the end of March, would have given him cause for concern. Surging costs for food and recreation have kept the annual rate of price growth in double figures.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Bread and circuses”
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