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When inflation spiked in the second year of the Covid pandemic, most monetary officials and economists initially characterized the phenomenon as supply side-driven and predicted the dynamic would be short-lived. By 2022, that hope was abandoned, and monetary stances around the world were tightened very aggressively, amid a new narrative that a rece

<p>Fumio Kishida, Japan’s prime minister, says country faces ‘battle against time’ to rescue people as at least 48 killed in earthquakes A Japan Airlines aircraft is on fire at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport, NHK reports, adding that work is ongoing to extinguish the fire. Live footage of the plane, surrounded by smoke, can be seen here. […]

<p>Home secretary said the government had met its targets despite Labour claiming this is ‘false’ Good morning and happy new year. Politics is not starting at full pelt this week – the Commons is not back until next week, and although Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer have visits scheduled for later this week, we’re not […]

<p>Home secretary says ‘awful joke’ about putting Rohypnol in wife’s drink may have distracted from government’s work on spiking The home secretary, James Cleverly, has conceded that a pre-Christmas “joke” he made about spiking his wife’s drink with a date rape drug could have distracted from his department’s work to tackle violence against w

<p>Nicholas Boys Smith says we have ‘fallen out of love with the future’ and failed to build enough homes Not all of the green belt should be “preserved in aspic for ever”, the government’s building design tsar has said, as he warned that with all but the highest earning young people priced out of buying, […]

<p>Charity says lone-parent households are bearing brunt of housing crisis and that private renting is broken More than 70,000 lone-parent households are facing eviction this winter amid warnings that they are “bearing the brunt” of the housing crisis in England, figures reveal. A survey by Shelter has found that one in seven lone parents who

<p>Sales of 1,589 bottles prove Lords is ‘archaic and out of touch’ during cost of living crisis, says the SNP Almost £90,000 worth of champagne was bought for events within the House of Lords last year and from its gift shop, according to new figures, the highest level for five years. Details of the sales […]