From Dot-com to Pandemic: The Bank of England’s Interest Rates in the 21st Century
9 May 2024. Interest rates are held again at 5.25% in England. But how did we get here? Here's a data history from the dot-com to 2024 on key interest rate moves.
David Heasman
The Cost of Living Crisis in your Store Cupboard
Two grocery items you buy everyday saw prices rise above 50% between September 2021 and September 2022: vegetable oil and pasta.
Two saw prices go *down* by more than five percent: beef mince and orange juice.
A can of Heinz Beanz has risen faster than recent Inflation
If a tin of Heinz baked beans followed the path of other tinned goods from 2019. It would cost £0.94 today.
Instead, it costs £1.40.
Yes. A can of Heinz Beanz has risen faster than cost-of-living.
Interest Rates Since 1694
The Bank of England (BoE) has announced today that interest rates will be held at 5.25%. A reminder – from the middle to late half of the 20th century, when we moved from the era of John Maynard Keynes to…
12 Things I’ve Learned in Three Years of Data Journalism
12 things I've learned about Data Journalism in my three years of doing it.
No, not the tools. Or methods. Just things I've picked up over time, that I've found useful, that's rarely mentioned elsewhere.
Everything You Do Is Marketing
I recently started a marketing internship with a London startup called TaskPandas. Obviously in the days leading up to the internship I boned up on all the articles I’d read on marketing: The Truth About Social Media 1,000 True Fans…
Some Old Drawings
In this ongoing quest, I’ve finally made it formal. I’m going to start on Monday the 5th of August. That will make the 30th day the 3rd of September. Just to establish a baseline, here are some former drawings I…