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OPINION - London must not make the same mistake as Paris, now that Smithfield market is closing

Smithfield Market will close, but it doesn’t have to be like this, writes business editor Jonathan Prynn

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OPINION - QR codes in restaurants are the heralds of automation — we should ban them

There is a generational divide when it comes to QR codes and I am on the far side of it. But there’s going to be more, many more of them around, according to this paper’s genius business editor, Jonathan Prynn. It’s all about the increase in employers’ National Insurance in…

Evening Standard

OPINION - No, Taylor Swift's Eras Tour did not meaningfully boost economic growth

The Eras Tour is big. The UK economy is much bigger

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OPINION - Labour likes to complain about its inheritance – but it will soon enjoy lower interest rates

I'm not saying I don't like my job, but I think I'd quite fancy sitting on the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) . Not for the money, of course – though a total compensation package of £163,700 per annum sounds decent. Nor even because I take an amateur's…

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Assange free in US plea deal & London’s soaring beer price ...The Standard podcast

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OPINION - Rishi Sunak's 'comeback narrative' collides with economic reality

"Was in the slow lane. Still in the slow lane. Will remain in the slow lane." The laconic words of Jonathan Prynn, the Standard's business editor, summarising (off the record but oh well) today's report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), which forecasts that the UK will be…

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Pockit’s Virraj Jatania: How he got through a crisis “out of our control”...How to be a CEO podcast

On this episode of How to be a CEO we’re continuing our series looking at start-up success stories.

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The rise of London’s hyper-luxurious restaurants explained - The Standard podcast

New figures from the Harden’s London Restaurant Guide shows the number of hyper-luxurious restaurants, offering dizzying new levels of exorbitance, is on the rise.

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OPINION - Why Taylor Swift is bigger than The Beatles (but smaller than the French economy)

If you want to annoy an economist, try mixing up stock and flow. This is a mistake commonly made even by business journalists (though not Jonathan Prynn, of course) when attempting to describe the value of large companies.

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OPINION - If it’s hurting, it’s working, but it still sucks

At about 10:45 this morning I turned to Jonathan Prynn, the Standard’s business editor, and asked what he made of the latest purchasing managers’ index (PMI) numbers. His answer was unprintable. In fairness, at fifteen minutes to deadline, I picked a bad time to bother him. But Jonathan is hardly…

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OPINION - No one knows where house prices are headed (and if they did, they wouldn’t tell you)

You know the drill: you’re sat next to someone at a dinner party – not a friend, not yet an enemy. You don’t want to resort to cliché too soon by discussing the weather, nor can you be seen to raise the burning issue of the host’s recent facelift. So…

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OPINION - The Leader podcast: ‘Salad crisis’ crunch talks & energy cap latest

Supermarket bosses in the UK were drafted in for an emergency meeting with ministers on Monday, to discuss how they plan to deal with the so-called ‘salad crisis’.

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