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The World Cup economy: why a UK pint now costs 36% more than it did in Qatar
As the 2026 World Cup kicks off, the BBC's price tracker shows a UK pint has climbed 36% since Qatar 2022 — a cost-of-living marker that says more about four years of fiscal and energy policy than it does about football.
Desk note: Monexus framed the 36% figure as a cost-of-living story anchored to a sporting moment, rather than as a stand-alone inflation dispatch, in order to surface the BBC's implicit editorial argument that discretionary leisure is where the post-2022 squeeze is most visible.
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