Gosling's Grouse: Great Expectations

GOSLING'S GROUSE

That nice man from Sky TV wrote to me last week to politely tell me my monthly bill is going up by £3.50.

I worked out that is three and a half cups of Prêt á Manger filter coffee I need to stop drinking to make up for the shortfall in the monthly budget. It is a hard decision – give up Sky TV, or give up coffee – I know what I would go for, and what I will have to go for in the end. Despite being the bill payer in our house, I am in an overwhelming minority of one when it comes to making this decision. Sky stays, coffee goes. So if you asked me, as a result of this piece of real life economics, whether inflation is rising, falling or staying the same, I would tell you categorically it is ri...