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“It’s a year like no other,” Hilary Osborne, the Guardian’s money and consumer editor, says. Food, clothing, housing, transportation, heating, energy - the cost of all are rapidly rising. Meanwhile, wages fail to keep pace and the national insurance surcharge approaches. This brings us to the ‘cost of living crisis’ dominating headlines this week.

The Guardian talk to single mother Amie Jordan who is feeling the rises acutely, like many other low income households. Amie is particularly anxious about supporting her son through the winter months, and has begun skipping meals in response to rising grocery costs.

Athletes in the spotlight are no stranger to online abuse, but the amount of negativity is not distributed equally. Serena Williams and Naomi Osaka are the "most trolled" tennis players according to research. An analysis from Pickwise collected all tweets directed at professional tennis players in order to shine a light on the abuse major athletes encounter day-to-day off the courts. Naomi Osaka was the most abused tennis player on Twitter in 2021, receiving a daunting 32,415 mentions that had a negative sentiment. Serena Williams came in second with 18,118 toxic tweets.

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