Alison O'Connor: Inflation in US hits harder than gun violence, Ukraine, or climate

Different accent but the same language to US talk of cost-of-living crisis

Even though US gasoline prices continue to drop, general inflation is still high in the US.

You stand and read name after name in the long, long list of the thousands of men who died over centuries. Then you lift your eyes to look out at the very sea that took their lives.

This fishermen’s memorial — littered with names like O’Brien, Kelly, Nolan, McLaughlin, McGrath, Tobin, Costello, Fanning, and Murphy — is located in the fishing port of Gloucester, in Massachusetts. The first settlers from England arrived there in 1623 and, as you read, “sustained by the hope of prosperity”, others followed from Canada, Scandinavia and Ireland and later Italy and Portugal.