A 30 April snapshot shows a 1.6 percent rise, an 8 to 1 rate vote, oil above 114 dollars and a handful of company announcements that moved the index The London stock market report is a small literary form. It reduces a day of anxiety, […]
Your Local Coffee Shop Is a Property Business That Happens to Froth Milk
A north London high street, a flat white and the honest numbers behind the capital’s favourite small enterprise Your Local Coffee Shop Is a Property Business That Happens to Froth Milk On the high street nearest my flat there are, at the last count, nine […]
The Knowledge Is London’s Hardest Exam and Its Strangest Business Decision
Why people still spend years memorising every street in the capital when a phone will do it for nothing The Knowledge Is London’s Hardest Exam and Its Strangest Business Decision On a wet Tuesday morning in north London, a man in waterproofs is riding a […]
The Arithmetic of a London Pint, Explained by People Who Pull Them
Where the money in your glass actually goes, and why the landlord is not the one getting rich The Arithmetic of a London Pint, Explained by People Who Pull Them There is a moment, familiar to anyone who drinks in this city, when the card […]
The Tuesday-to-Thursday City: How Hybrid Work Rewired London’s Lunch Trade
Sandwich shops, dry cleaners and shoe repairers are learning to live on three days a week, and not all of them will The Tuesday-to-Thursday City: How Hybrid Work Rewired London’s Lunch Trade At a quarter to one on a Wednesday, the queue outside a salad […]
Under the Arches: The Small Firms Powering London From Beneath the Railway
Brewers, bakers, mechanics and metalworkers share the capital’s most characterful industrial estate, and the rent is the story Under the Arches: The Small Firms Powering London From Beneath the Railway Every few minutes the ceiling rumbles. Nobody looks up. In the arch where I am […]