England fans didn’t embrace the #QatarWorldCup with their usual enthusiasm. ‘Three Lions’ was hardly played on match days, and beer sales were lower than landlords would have hoped. TV ratings remained strong, however, so FIFA still benefits regardless.

millennials aren’t getting more right-wing as they age: fascinating statistics via ⁦John Burn-Murdoch⁩ ft.com/content/c361e3…

This chart is amazing. After the calamity of Trussonomics, expected BoE interest rates soon fell back. Equivalent mortgage rates shot up like a rocket but have fallen like a feather …leaving households still at the sharp end of the moron premium

Nostalgia for Decline - Chartbook #184 takes on the confused debate in contemporary UK where the problem is not the familiar trope of decline and revivalism but deconvergence. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-18…

in light of the astonishing stagnation of real wages and productivity, evoking narratives of decline is contemporary Britain is an exercise in nostalgia. This is like nothing we have ever seen before. Check out Chartbook #184 and sign up (for free!) adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-18…

5/5 Combined stocks and bonds together, and Yale's Bob Shiller, via the Financial Times, says 2022 was the worst year for investors since 1871! Note only three years in the last 150 in the lower left quadrant. ft.com/content/c93f36…

Non-drinking rapidly increasing among young English people

Brexit has cooled the appetite for Nexit, Italiexit, etc. (FT)

Average hours worked per week since the year 1260 Just be grateful you weren’t alive in the 1800s

The upshot, when you look at NET WELFARE is that younger generations are putting in more and getting out less than their elders. Considerably less. Someone born in 1996 can expect less than half of someone born in 1967. h/t Duncan Robinson for this Resolution Foundation nugget

Real terms pay for primary teachers in England vs other OECD countries. This is why there's a strike today.

🖌️WATCHING PAINT DRY IS FASCINATING🖌️ This is a story abt car paint. 🚗But it’s abt more than that. Its abt the world we live in: The rise of mass production The ascent of mass consumption The rise & fall of economic growth And why our productivity growth seems to have stalled 🧵

NEW: America is a rich country. Britain is a poor country with one wealthy region. People love to compare the UK to Mississippi, but it’s far more informative to look at UK subnationally, too. London ranks fairly well, the rest of the country does not 👉 ft.com/content/e5c741…

I know all the data. So there's no surprise. Never drawn it this well I don't think though. Great stuff FT graph people.

🍫🍫🍫THE CHOCOLATE CRISIS — an UPDATED thread🆕🆕🆕: Retail chocolate prices are rising (and will increase much further, while shrinkflation will reduce sizes) after wholesale cocoa prices surged to an unthinkable all-time high of ***$10,000 a ton*** on Tuesday. 1/15 @Opinion

Beautiful, informative chart. What's seldom observed is how impressive Brown's recovery was on.ft.com/4agcKdZ Also, in 97 the main three parties were 93%+ of the vote. Tories didn't face this two sided squeeze

🚨NEW: many councils are spending more on debt interest costs than they have in income. 🧵on how we got here...

Which country is across the ocean? Check the latitudes on this #map by @‌washingtonpost to look beyond the horizon.