Britain Lost 14,000 Third Places. They Were Called Pubs. Is Your Local Next?

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How private equity reshaped the local and the postcode tool that shows the pubs most at risk.

My brother is coming to visit London. He wants one thing: beer. Apparently a lot of it. If there is one thing I don't know much about, it's beer and pubs. I'm Gen Z. I'm up at 6:30 for a sunrise run. My idea of a Saturday well spent is an 80-mile ride followed by a flat white. My brother, a Gen Y edge case, considers this a character flaw. So I did what every little sister would do: instead of finally getting my payback for two decades of him beating me at every sport imaginable (…he was just taller), I opened VS Code. One evening later, I have 49,840 pubs in a dataframe, an NLP classifier…

Britain Lost 14,000 Third Places. They Were Called Pubs. Is Your Local Next?

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