Amol Rajan
speaker
3,997 appearances
23 recordings
6 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 16 Jul
Amol Rajan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It would be nice if we could have lower rates and lower duties and so on.
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But that's not really the issue.
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The issue is...
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is the quality of pubs themselves.
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That was James May.
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Would you go along with that?
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Is your sense that it's easier to make a pub viable in London or a big city compared to the country pub?
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So as you know, we do this Q&A episode, which goes out on Monday.
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It's called Your Radical Questions.
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And we punt for contributions from our listeners.
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And we got one that was so good and so informed and so detailed that I actually wanted to bring it forward into this conversation.
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It's from Dr. Lauren Leak.
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She's a quantitative psychologist.
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data scientist at the university of reading and she has been looking into what causes pub closures and she logged every pub closure from 2009 to 2022 and having done all that work she sent us this question have a listen to this
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What a fantastic question.
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That's a really good question.
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Okay.
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Lauren is basically saying the strongest signals in her model about looking into how you predict whether or not a pub is going to close, there were almost always things a landlord can't control, such as the location and not the offer.
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So Lauren's question is how much of a pub's fate is really in your hands and how much is already decided by where it sits?
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So if Lauren's right that the fate of a pub to some degree is decided by where it sits, just to spell it out, what is a bad place to sit?
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