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

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…

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