28-03-2025
Allegra Stratton: Is the UK Economy Springing Back to Life?
The Readout is taking a brief poetical turn this Friday. I have two poems ear-worming around my head as we digest both this morning's retail figures as well as the general economic picture as we end this spring statement week.
A.E. Housman's Loveliest of trees, the cherry now is the first, because of the very obvious rudeness of health that London's cherry trees are in, all 'wearing white for Eastertide' (before you say 'Eugh, how saccharine,' I assure you the second verse isn't at all).
