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05.03.2026 21:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Gen X. Our time has come. 🫡
04.03.2026 17:59 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yes, I know, it's a sign...
04.03.2026 17:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
No through road street sign saying “No access to Borough High Street” with another sign underneath it saying “Except for access”
⛔️🤔🤷♂️
04.03.2026 13:38 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0
Charlotte's voice is the one I was waiting for on this.
open.substack.com/pub/charlott...
Country defeats supermarket chain. Inspiring news for those of us contemplating similar actions www.ft.com/content/329f...
04.03.2026 08:18 — 👍 50 🔁 11 💬 7 📌 1🥐 A "strong slice" of a "flaky market"... Some junior financial PR had a lot of fun with the Greggs preliminary results today...
03.03.2026 19:20 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Have posted this before but...
UK household expenditure on newspapers & periodicals is trending to hit zero sometime in 2030 (although obviously it won't actually hit zero, more likely bottoming out somewhere on the way)
JW’s plan to buy back Brewdog was worth just £30m, £3m less than the winning bid, and it was backed by a family office that is also one of the main backers of Modella, the owner of TGJones… news.sky.com/story/mark-k...
03.03.2026 13:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
"If B&M’s problems stem from drift and poor execution of a sound strategy... fixing it should not be impossible"
Easier said than done (!), but agree with the sentiment: what Poundland has done in a few months should be testament to that. But much harder to do it without the founding Arora brothers
Sorry I didn’t mean to get at you! I agree it’s really sad for the entire print media industry - their relationship with WHS/Smith News has never been the best, but putting all their eggs in one basket was always risky…!
03.03.2026 11:24 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Like, a business can’t survive on a few people wanting an occasional print copy of the Economist. If none of the supermarkets and other newsagents sell it, that might be a clue as to the economic viability of providing that service…
03.03.2026 11:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Not calling out this post in particular (ok, maybe the QTs), but all those people dunking on TGJones/private equity… when was the last time you bought something in Smiths?
Like the High Street in general, people like the “idea” of WHSmith, but if you won’t go there, how are they supposed to survive?
Advert for a tour agent saying "Stuck at Dubai Airport? Your premium route to India via Muscat" offering a bus to Oman and flight from there to India
Entrepreneurial... My Insta now has ads for travel agents who claim they can get you out of Dubai by bus...
03.03.2026 08:58 — 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Are they saying that their coffee is proudly... instant?
That's a hard bourgeois metropolitan champagne liberal NO.
...and all the innocent people who were caught changing planes in the middle of the night, or who now can't get home from Asia or Australia. Not everybody is Isabel Oakeshott (thank goodness)
03.03.2026 08:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Chicken sandwich at Boots with a 1 March best before date (today is 2 March)
Higgidy Meal Deal snack which is use by 22 February
More Higgidy meal deal snacks with a 1 March use by date
🥪 Continuing a short series of WTAF is going on at Boots, I went to buy a late sandwich. But it was best before yesterday. And the Meal Deal Snack was best before *last month*… 🤢
02.03.2026 17:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Retro @airportarchitecture.byerussell.com again!
01.03.2026 15:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
While we sit around to find out how bad exactly it all is, a bit of cheer: the best baguette of Paris competition was won by a Sri Lankan who appears to have started as a dish washer in restaurants and eventually trained as a Boulanger.
www.paris.fr/pages/la-mei...
That's... very average, given they have so many taps. What a shame.
28.02.2026 18:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Coffee kiosk outside John Lewis, branded as Topshop
Topshop at John Lewis coffee menu
Page from Topshop newspaper showing a woman in a trenchcoat, with a 20% off flyer next to it
Page from Topshop newspaper showing a selection of ladies shoes
👠 Not sure a coffee kiosk is the best way to advertise TopShop (nor whether John Lewis is the most obvious stockist), but you gotta admit those prices are keen: £38 animal-print sandals, £120 trenchcoat, plus 20% off.
Like all Gen Xers, I hope TopShop & TopMan get their mojo back soon!🤞
Express headline: “brutal Arctic freeze” to hit UK
14 day forecast from Weather.com showing mild, spring-like temperatures well above freezing
Context: some journalists are paid in clicks and the Express is notorious in eg forecasting blizzards with a 1% likelihood as “fact”
28.02.2026 13:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Tweet saying "as a child, the greatest airport terminal in the world" with a photo of a maze of escalators in a futuristic-looking circular concrete space
🛫 Stolen from the other place, one for @airportarchitecture.byerussell.com ...
IYKYK!
I know I shouldn't fall for the clickbait, but...
...yeah, this just confirms that Home Bargains will be closed on Easter Sunday (but open the following day 🤦♂️)
@economybeyond.bsky.social this has your name written all over it! 🍜
27.02.2026 15:36 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Indeed they were! 😋
27.02.2026 13:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
4. And not one but two visits to the Queen Charlotte... A dangerous discovery, and a godsend in an otherwise barren part of Fitzrovia (pub-wise)
Enough distraction from politics yet?
Happy Friday!
Two pints of pale ale, some peanuts and Scampi Fries on a pub table
A pint of cask beer on a pub table
3. Oh, and The Pocket's sister pub and Giles Coren's favourite (but don't let that put you off!), a couple of pints at the Southampton Arms.
Sorry they are blurry - consumed after a long day at the hands of the NHS, so that was why.
A pint of cask beer on the bar counter
A view of the length of the bar at The Pocket pub in Highbury
2. Can you believe the Pocket in Highbury is less than a year old? Always a well curated and well kept selection: that's a delicious pint of cask Tartarus DDH pale ale from Leeds, but also had an excellent Saison from Balance and a Cold IPA from Queer
27.02.2026 13:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0