Mike Hosking
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128,494 appearances
929 recordings
4 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 2d ago
Mike Hosking’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 929 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 202.
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At the pricey end, meat, poultry and fish went up a bit over three percent.
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Rent, by the way, which was also included by the Stats Department, as in houses, were flat.
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Flat zero, went nowhere.
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In other words, no cost of living issue there either.
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Separate category, but never.
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Nevertheless, another reminder that not everything is up and up a lot, and therefore worth getting angsty about.
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If you really want to get wound up, guess what power prices did?
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They went down.
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The point of all of this is reality is not always what you think it is, or indeed would like it to be.
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The food story has become, of course, a soap opera, and that's why we get the nonsense from the politicians last week.
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Captured by the consultants who poll people and say things like,
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Like, do you think food is too expensive?
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Answer, yes.
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Are you paying too much?
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Answer, yes.
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Next step, meeting over the campaign.
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Next step, we're breaking up the supermarkets.
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We're banning price gouging.
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And even though it's not real and most likely won't happen, more importantly, it won't actually solve anything because the facts show there's nothing to solve.
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What drove it was mood driven by perception, and you can really
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