Commentary and analysis from our contributors. Views are the author's own.
Online shopping won the convenience argument years ago. It's telling that physical retail hasn't disappeared anyway — because convenience was never the only thing shopping was for.
Rents and rates are structurally biased toward whoever can pay the most, not whoever adds the most to a neighbourhood. That bias is worth correcting deliberately.
Coverage of London's economy still defaults to the City and the West End. The more interesting commercial story is increasingly happening everywhere else.
London's economy has always been defined by what it does for a living. That definition is shifting again, and the discomfort about it is worth examining rather than simply resisting.
