13,846 cups of coffee? You could buy a house with that

By Olivia Goldhill. After Tory minister Greg Clark says tuition fees cost little more than a daily Costa coffee, what other big-ticket items could you buy instead?
In 1915, the poet T. S. Eliot penned the line: “I have measured out my life with coffee spoons”. A hundred years later, the Government’s universities minister has reworked the sentiment into less poetical advice, suggesting that students should measure out their university debt in “posh coffee” cups. Read more...