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.

From Selfies To Self Destruction: A Unique Insight Into Jeremy Corbyn

When Jeremy Corbyn arrived in Llandudno on the Labour leadership campaign trail some 500 people spilled out of the doors of a hotel ballroom in seaside town of just 20,000. Corbynmania had gripped the country and he was elected with the largest mandate ever won by a party leader, though no previous Labour...

Lord Sugar Has Made A Huge U-Turn On Brexit

Lord Sugar has made a huge u-turn on Europe after a video was leaked of him supporting Leave principles just six months ago! The entrepreneur recently announced that Brits would be "the mugs of the world" if we voted to leave the EU, saying free trade is vital to keep our economy...

Is Wetherspoons Breaking Electoral Law?

JD Wetherspoon founder Tim Martin has weighed in to the EU debate to counter the high-profile intervention of Ryanair's Michael O'Leary, but could run in to trouble with the Electoral Commission. The pub chain is to print 200,000 beer mats to be distributed across all 920 UK pubs which could violate electoral law...

Kitchen Hacks For Our Top 10 Disaster Dishes

No matter how many times we cook them, there are certain disaster dishes that we just cannot get right. According to a new poll of 2,000 adults the average person will endure a cooking disaster at least three times a month – that’s 36 meals ruined across the course of one...

Restaurant Review: Pizza Pilgrims, Covent Garden

Landing a serious job in London is a cause for celebration for most twenty-somethings, but for Pizza Pilgrims founders James Elliot and brother Thom, it was a cause for great concern. In 2011, faced with the prospect of a 9-5 office desk existence and a life working for ‘the man’...

Black Pudding Makes The Top 15 Superfoods of 2016

The health and wellness industry, dubbed the next trillion dollar industry globally, is having its day in the sun. Fitness, mind and body exercise, health eating, nutrition and weight loss are all massively lucrative industries, but few have burst into the limelight more than the superfood. Over the last few years, superfoods...

The Cash Rich Islands of a Cash Strapped Economy

Early last month the Western world was up in arms after an unprecedented data leak revealed the myriad ways in which the rich are exploiting secretive offshore tax regimes. Billions of dollars sheltered in Panama and similar ‘havens’ resulted in uproar as evidence of crucial tax revenue routed offshore unravelled. But amidst...

Barnaby Walker, 22 on his pedal powered punt. See Masons copy MNPUNT: An engineering student has invented a new way of powering a traditional river punt - by pedal power. Barnaby Walker, 22, took up the challenge from his supervisor after trying to find new ways of powering a punt and came up with the 'puntcycle'. The Cambridge University student converted an unloved old punt into a sleek, two-wheeled speed machine - capable of leaving all other river-users in his wake. He decided to breathe new life into French Hen, a punt which was a year older than himself, and rescued it after being beached for three years.

What A Punt! Barnaby Reinvents Traditional River Boat

An engineering student at Cambridge University has reinvented the traditional river punt by installing pedal power. The so-called 'puntcycle' was invented by 22 year-old Barnaby Walker who converted an unloved old punt into a sleek, two-wheeled speed machine capable of leaving all other river-users in his wake. He decided to breathe new...

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