

True, there is shade you could throw on this achievement.

Who says nothing ever gets better? The UK unemployment rate fell to its lowest level since the 1960s at 3.6% in early Spring 2023, although it has since rebounded to just over 4%. Two defining images from the TV broadcasts of my childhood are the AIDS iceberg, and long dole queues as three million languished unemployed. Here are five interesting charts from the report, with a few thoughts on each. Obviously I chose to indulge myself by reading the new IFS Green Budget 2023 with a latte whipped up with my infamous espresso machine. With Storm Babet tap-dancing across the flat roof of my extension, I wondered how I’d spend the windfall afternoon a cancelled trip to the provinces had gifted me.
