UK’s Laundry Poverty
Britain has reached a strange new milestone in the cost of living crisis: even doing the laundry is becoming unaffordable. In this episode of Mark and Pete, we look at the growing reality of laundry poverty in the UK, where rising energy bills, detergent prices, and laundrette costs are pushing more people to wash less, dry less, and quietly compromise on basic hygiene.
At first glance it sounds like a minor inconvenience, even a slightly comic headline. But beneath the surface it reveals something far more serious: a nation where ordinary life is becoming harder, more stressful, and…
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