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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Where do you not want to be?
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Is it basically the middle of nowhere?
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Well, Ashin, we have the best researchers and producers in the business, and they tell me in this brief who Lauren is.
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So Lauren is Dr. Lauren Leake, quantitative data scientist at the University of Reading, who logged every pub closure.
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This is so interesting.
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Logged every pub closure from 2009 to 2022.
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And during that period, Britain went from having 54,000 pubs to 40,000.
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And she worked this out by number crunching the number of closed businesses on Companies House.
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with a SIC code, which is pubs and bars, SIC code 56302.
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This is a great brief.
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She's looked at the UK business register data to model the survival risk of every pub in Britain.
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And she disagrees the decline is because people stop going.
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The bigger culprits for her are policy, taxes on beer, the 2017 business rates evaluation, COVID, we haven't even talked about COVID, my goodness, COVID, a huge thing, and the 2022 energy crisis.
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And her conclusion is that pubs don't die because of what's inside them, but because of what's
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outside of them.
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Lauren thinks that London's success, quote unquote, when it comes to pubs is an illusion.
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It's more to do with ownership than anything a landlord has done.
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In London, the land that pubs sit on is valuable.
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So if someone closes it, it can be easily turned into a bar or tap room.
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In Burnley, for instance, the land isn't worth nearly as much.
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