In the Good Old Days, One Fourth of Income Went to Food


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www.counterpunch.org— I am not ordinarily a celebrant for the state of the economy, but the media have been so over the top in pushing the economic doom story during the Biden presidency, that I feel the need to put some reality into the picture. One of the central lines among the doomsayers is that we are More

Daily Mail—PETER HITCHENS: To my critics who call me 'Boomer', I say this: One day you'll be lucky enough to be old. In recent years, as I battle for facts and logic on anti-social media, my critics have taken to calling me 'old' in the hope of damaging me. They seem to think that because I am old, therefore I am stupid.

www.thestar.co.uk—"I visited new food hall in huge old Sheffield warehouse and it got one thing just right". Food halls are having a bit of a moment in Sheffield. Cutlery Works in Neepsend and Kommune on Angel Street have been named among the best in the UK, Sheffield Plate at Orchard Square is thriving and the city’s original food hall at Moor Market remains popular. They will soon be joined by Cambridge Street Collective, which it is said will be Europe’s largest purpose-built food hall, with capacity for 1,200 diners. But there’s another new addition to the scene at The Steamworks, a vast former...

WCCB Charlotte—100-Year-Old British D-Day Veteran Dies Before He Can Honor Fallen Comrades One More Time. British army veteran Bill Gladden, one of the dwindling number of veterans who took part in the landings that kicked off the campaign to liberate Western Europe from the Nazis during World War II, died Wednesday. He was 100.