From the editor-in-chief..
“I’d like to tell you there is a simple solution to the surging cost of living. There is not.” The cost of living crisis is real. It is partly about rising prices, and partly about rising taxes. You can feel the price bit all around you. Rents are at a 13-year high (rising over 8% at the end of last year). Oil prices are high and likely to stay high (see page 18). Fertiliser prices rose 43% last week alone (see page 5). Pulp and packaging prices are rising (much of our pulp came from Russia), as are sunflower oil and wheat prices (major exports from Ukraine). Some might say we could do better all round if we gave up wheat and the agricultural tyranny it brings (see page 21). But…
