Axes of evil: the great inflation Con

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.

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:

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 and 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.