New research by Ipsos showed high levels of public concern in the UK about the rising cost of living. One in three Brits said they were struggling to afford their energy bills, and this was before the newly-announced 80% price cap hike. According to the study, which was conducted between …
Read More »Fuel poverty to hit British households, energy chief warns
Around 40% of British families will live in “fuel poverty” if the country’s authorities don’t take steps to lower energy prices, according to the head of the energy company E.ON, Michael Lewis, as quoted by The Independent. “Some people are at the edge and that will get worse,” Lewis said, …
Read More »Polish households left without gas
Poland’s Deputy Minister of the Interior and Administration Paweł Szefernaker said on Thursday that several dozen municipalities, were left without liquefied gas because of sanctions imposed by Warsaw on Russian energy giant Novatek. “At the moment, we are trying to find ways to solve this problem and resume gas supplies …
Read More »With 200K households a year opting out of TV license, parliamentary report slams ‘complacent’ BBC bosses
In a report published on Friday, the House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts warned the BBC is at a “critical juncture” having “lost its place as the media provider that young people spend most time with” due to the rise of on-demand streaming services such as Netflix and Amazon …
Read More »Escape from New York: 300,000 households flee as lockdowns & surging crime sour residents on the Big Apple
US Postal Service data obtained by the New York Post showed that there were more than 295,000 change-of-address requests filed by residents moving out of the city’s five boroughs from March 1 through October 31. The data included only moves to counties with 11 or more forwarding requests filed, meaning …
Read More »Expert tax on households will have a damning effect on the village
Taxation of private farms economically harmful, says citizen journalist Henry Alexander. As stated by the expert to the correspondent of “Rosbalt”, in LPH, the villagers produce a very small volume of agricultural products. “In my opinion, if the United Russia all-taki will bring the introduction of a tax on smallholdings …
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