Jordan Walker

Every card tap costs the shop about 6p, and Britain's annual bill for accepting payment has doubled in five years. Here is where the money goes, and who set the price.

Britain switched off its prison currency in 2018. Within months, inmates had reinvented money from scratch. What they chose tells you what money really is.

The Freddo was 10p for thirteen years. Cadbury itself now charges 45p, and cocoa only explains about 3p of the journey. A chocolate frog's guide to where your money went.

It takes 600 dead phones to make one gold ring. Inside the Royal Mint's plan to outlive the death of the coin.

For thirty-eight years the ONS published what a pint cost, every month, in pence. The series stops in January 2025 at £4.83. Here is what replaced it, and why two official figures for the same pint are 41p apart.

McDonald's collects around $10 billion a year in rent from its own franchisees, on land it bought decades ago. The burgers were never the business.