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.

Most scenic airport in the World revealed

The adrenaline-pumping landing at Saba in the Caribbean has won top spot in 2017 Scenic Airports poll. The tiny Caribbean island runway topped the global travel poll, with other top ten landings including Donegal, London City, Gibraltar and Queenstown. The world’s shortest commercial runway, on the Caribbean island of Saba,...

In pictures: the 2017 Food Photographer of the Year

The World’s greatest food photo was unwrapped at a packed awards reception at the Mall Galleries in London last night. Bangladesh-based Shoeb Faruquee was declared overall winner of Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year 2017 and was presented with a cheque for £5,000 by Andy Macdonald, who heads up Pink Lady in...

Super-rich are paying less in taxes than their cleaners

Britain's super-rich are paying less in taxes than their cleaners, according to official figures. The latest release from the Office for National Statistics shows the poorest ten per cent of households fork out 42 per cent of their income in taxes – including VAT and council tax. Conversely, the richest...

Visitors to the Greenwich Observatory Planetarium look up in awe during out-of this- world audio drama space beaming, to mark the launch of Alien: River of Pain – an Audible audio drama exclusive

First audiobook beamed into space from the Royal Observatory Greenwich

Hundreds of people witnessed a one-of-a-kind event last night as an audiobook was beamed into space for the first time ever. The audio drama Alien: River of Pain was transmitted from the Royal Observatory Greenwich, with onlookers afforded the chance to see the audio drama get converted into a digital signal and...

A third of Brits barely write any more

Last week I had a conversation with a friend about on-screen chat. He had sent over a thousand emails that month, beating a previous record of 962, which begged the question of whether he was hiding behind his screen when it comes to client liaison or whether that had simply...

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