Are people getting better or worse off?
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Tukey ambled to the podium, a great bear of a man dressed in baggy pants and a black knitted shirt. These might once have been a matching pair, but the vintage was such that it was hard to tell. …The words came …, not many, like overweight parcels, delivered at a slow unfaltering pace. …Tukey turned to face the audience …. ‘Comments, queries, suggestions?’ he asked …. As he waited for a response, he clambered onto the podium and manoeuvred until he was sitting cross-legged facing the audience. …We in the audience sat like spectators at the zoo waiting for the great bear to move or say something. But the great bear appeared to be doing the same thing, and the feeling was not comfortable. …After a long while, …he extracted from his pocket a bag of dried prunes and proceeded to eat them in silence, one by one. The war of nerves continued …four prunes, five prunes. …How many prunes would it take to end the silence? (Source: McCullagh, P. (2003) ‘John Wilder Tukey’, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, vol. 49, pp. 537–55.)
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‘The huge squeeze on Brits was laid bare today as figures showed inflation has soared to a 20-year high.’ (The Sun, 18 October 2011) ‘Overall, prices in the economy rose 0.6% on the month from August.’ (Guardian, 18 October 2011) ‘Inflation in the UK continued to fall in February, thanks largely to lower gas and electricity bills.’ (BBC News website, 20 March 2012) ‘UK inflation rises more than expected.’ (Daily Telegraph, 16 August 2011)
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In the 1950s, the mangle, crisps and dance hall admissions were added to the basket, with soap flakes among the items taken out. Two decades later, the cassette recorder and dried mashed potato made it in, with prunes being excluded. Then after the turn of the century, mobile phone handsets and fruit smoothies were included. The old fashioned staples of an evening at home – gin and slippers – were removed from the basket. So now, in 2012, it is the turn of tablet computers to be added to mark the growing popularity of this type of technology. That received the most coverage when it was added to the basket of goods, with the ONS highlighting this digital-age addition in its media releases. But those seafaring captains who once used the then unusual fruit as a symbol to show they were home and hosting might be astonished to find that centuries on, the pineapple has also been added to the inflation basket. Technically, the pineapple has been added to give more varied coverage in the basket of fruit and vegetables, the prices of which can be volatile. (Source: BBC News website, 14 March 2012)
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