Farewell, Zipcar 👋

Meet the bond market vigilantes Governments are now at the mercy of unseen investors

Via @willdunn.bsky.social in @newstatesman1913.bsky.social

www.newstatesman.com/business/eco...

“Donwood's initial idea for the album cover was to create enormous topiary phalluses and digitally introduce them into the gardens owned by the National Trust, but Yorke was unconvinced.”

Shot, chaser

Why Europe's angel investors are rallying behind EU-INC's 28th Regime Angels are the quiet force behind Europe's startups, but fragmented national rules make cross-border investing slow, costly, and irrational. EU-INC's proposed 28th Regime could finally create a single...

Is Brussels sure about this name? The "28th Regime" sounds like something a Bond villain might plot

tech.eu/2025/09/30/w...

Humanity will shrink, far sooner than you think Demography sneaks up on you

Source:
economist.com/interactive/...

Quite the stat

Screen grab from Companies House website.

OnlyFans' parent company's accounts dropping in ~10 days

Still want to be a London cabbie? Surprisingly, many do, and are prepared to study for the gruelling test to become one

Read more here, to find out why the number of London taxi drivers in training is so surprisingly high:

economist.com/britain/2025...

Yet for all these challenges, a new generation of drivers is in training: 1,166 are currently studying the Knowledge, the gruelling qualification required to operate in London. That's an increase from the low of 759 students in 2022.

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Another threat to cabbies now looms in the rear-view mirror: taxis that don’t require a driver at all. From next spring the government will allow pilot schemes for autonomous taxis to roam England’s roads without human oversight.

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Tighter environmental standards pushed up the cost of vehicles. Councils blocked favourite cut-throughs and over half of London’s roads now have 20mph speed limits.

Since 2017 the number of black-cab drivers in London has fallen from about 25,000 to barely 16,500.

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🚖 My latest article for @economist.com asks who would want to drive a taxi in London.

The capital's cabbies have had a hard few years. Ride-hailing platforms such as Uber upended the market, with satnav-equipped drivers who no longer needed to memorise routes.

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Digital Frontier is closing - Talking Biz News Digital Frontier, a tech-focused publication, that launched in early 2024, is closing. It was based in London and launching with a team of 20. It covered stories on the future of business, finance and...

@digital-frontier.bsky.social is closing: talkingbiznews.com/media-news/d...

Susan Sontag - “On Photography”

(And yes, ironically, I felt compelled to take a photo of this passage)

The strange death of east London’s most radical bookshop Clogged toilets, trade unions and Google researchers: this is the saga of the Scarlett Letters

Radical bookshop closes after less than a year becasue staff are too radical

www.the-londoner.co.uk/scarlett-let...

Why is AI so slow to spread? Economics can explain Businesses are ignoring the street of hundred-dollar bills

Source:
economist.com/finance-and-...

Just stumbled on this and I love that it’s a thing

First time I’ve noticed a vacant shop in central London be marketed as an “8,500 sq ft brand presence”

Who wore it better?

I have questions

The Londoner London's new quality newspaper

As a proud Londoner, I just subscribed to @londonermag.bsky.social to support quality local journalism

www.the-londoner.co.uk

Riiight

BBC complains to Apple over misleading shooting headline Apple's new artificial intelligence features falsely made it seem the BBC reported Luigi Mangione had shot himself.

Ooh. This is intriguing.

Who is responsible when an AI tool incorrectly summarises the news for an app alert?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ah man Gladiator 2

That jumped a whole Colosseum full of sharks

Korea's six hours of martial law reminds me of that time OnlyFans banned sexual content

Here’s a guy who knows how to communicate with Trump’s America