Jack Peat

Jack Peat

Jack is a business and economics journalist and the founder of The London Economic (TLE).

He has contributed articles to VICE, Huffington Post and Independent and is a published author.

Jack read History at the University of Wales, Bangor and has a Masters in Journalism from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

Rough Sleepers Could Face Fines of up to £1,000 in Affluent Borough

Rough sleepers could face fines of up to £1,000 in a borough nicknamed Bread and Lard Island because of its large houses, according to reports. Rushcliffe Borough Council are set to introduce £100 fixed penalty notices to homeless people which could increase to £1,000 in some instances. Borough representatives say rough sleepers had been...

Children More Proficient in TV Channels than the Alphabet

Modern children are able to operate a TV remote control before they can recite the alphabet, according to shocking new research. The average British child can confidently channel-hop at the age of four years and ten months, but don't have a full grasp of the alphabet until they are almost...

Big Issue

A Hand up Not a Hand Out

The truism ‘prevention is better than cure’ has become a lost relic in austerity-hit Britain. The cost of applying a plaster to crisis situations is more appealing in its simplicity than precluding societal ills, and thus we waste billions of pounds funding late institutional responses such as hospitals, prisons and...

Catalonia: Cycling the Terres de l’Ebre

It's a cool evening as our taxi driver meanders through narrow dusty roads elevated above the fertile lands of the delta de l’Ebre. Flamingos and Heron rise above the wetlands, their frail legs mimicking the stalks of the rice plants they tower over. Home to enough wildlife to fill a...

In Numbers: NFL Night at the Hippodrome Casino

It’s Sunday evening, and as Leicester Square drains of tourists and locals head home to prepare for the working week, one London hotspot is just getting warmed up. London has embraced the NFL with open arms since the first live game was played in 2007, boasting an international community of...

Date Set for Joshua v Klitshcko

A date has been set for the much-anticipated bout between Anthony Joshua and Wladimir Klitshcko. The two heavyweights have been given the green light after WBO and WBA heavyweight champion Tyson Fury vacated his belts after being ruled medically unfit to compete. According to The Telegraph, the Joshua Klitshcko fight has...

Pound slumps to 168-year low

Sterling slumped to a 168-low last night selling at $1.2117 in late US trading. According to a trade-weighted index measuring sterling against a basket of its trading peers, the pound has now slumped to its lowest on record, even stretching beyond the introduction of free-floating exchange rates in the 1970s,...

The Pigeon Detectives: Here’s to the Class of ‘07

Why do bands insist on finding a ‘new sound’? It’s like the musical equivalent of a mid-life crisis. You’ve released a couple of records, toured more times than you can count and embarked on a brief hiatus before being compelled to reform and re-invent yourself into some refined version of...

Listen up Amber Rudd: This is Progress

In stark contrast to Amber Rudd's proposals to force British businesses to publish lists of foreign workers, companies in Germany will soon be required to publish data on gender pay parity in a move to tackle the gap. After Home Secretary Rudd's plans to name and shame companies who do not hire British...

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