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Rather than working on the thing we’re supposed to be working on, FT Alphaville found ourselves once again on the hellsite — where we saw a nice tweet by Archie Hall of the Economist:
The sort of chart where when you start the x axis really rather matters https://t.co/s9I4qQSUFT
— Archie Hall (@ArchieHall) June 3, 2025
Naturally, inflation is a curious choice of messaging area for a political party that presided, somewhat helplessly, over the most rapid price increases in about half a century.
Rather than working on the thing we’re supposed to be working on, FT Alphaville took the obvious bait found ourselves trying to see how the actual CPI index would look appended to that punchy social-media graphic.
Voilà:
As for the thing we were supposed to be working on… well, there’s always tomorrow.
