I’m happy that they haven’t moved this month but disheartened that they’re considering further rises. Inflation has really started ticking back down and while it’s not back in the ‘goldilocks’ zone yet things are definitely easing. They really need to wait and see what the mortgage cliff towards the end of the year will do to the market before moving up anymore as they could be directly responsible for pushing us into recession.
I’d suggest that a key exception to this is for state-funded, independent broadcasters such as the BBC, Deutsche Welle, the Australian ABC, NPR etc.
Because they have a profit-motive removed, I find that the quality of their journalism can often be higher than commercial media. Not always true (and it’s becoming increasingly untrue) but it’s the most common form of journalism that is both free to consume and of a relatively high quality.