The CAMRA Great British Beer Festival opened yesterday and they're keeping their name in the news today by stating the obvious: beer will be more expensive by the time the London Olympics rolls around. Shocker number 2, we'll all be 4 years older. Snides aside, dedicated beer drinkers protested outside Earls Court yesterday in fairly gruesome Alastair Darling masks about punitive beer taxes killing community pubs as government cack handedly attempts to quash 'binge......

Like a newly elected mayor with a point to prove, new London Mayor, Boris Johnson, has continued his pledge to lower the ever spiralling cost of the 2012 Olympics. Earlier this month he raised concerns that organisers of the games were failing to create a legacy master plan regarding facilities. Now, a review commissioned by the mayor has found that the cost of the Olympic Stadium alone has reached £525m – almost double its......

One of the reasons our economy could be in a real mess this year is that the price of basic stuff like fuel and food is going up fast. That means that it’s difficult for the central banks in Britain and Europe to justify lowering interest rates to encourage us to spend more — because spending would spur more inflation, which could get out of control. In developed countries, inflation is kind of like......