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Add that to the Yale Budget Lab’s estimate of more than 5 percent inflation from the more extreme versions of Trump’s tariff scenarios, and you have the recipe for an inflationary spiral that would make post-pandemic price increases look like a gentle hill that we climbed happily together on a languid summer afternoon.

She said urgent action was needed to prevent closures and the “downward spiral that will cause the arts to lose their impact”.

With each passing year, I see and hear the patient’s spiral of worry: Am I getting more forgetful?

“This contrast, this conflict, this clash of lives where you have young working families just trying to breathe in the air and have some form of relief, and next to them, you have people in a downward spiral — I wanted him to see that,” Reyes said.

The father of a boy who was found buried in a garden in Birmingham has told a jury he went "down a spiral of conspiracy" while studying for a degree in London.