I personally send my friends and family pics and vids of things I’m up to and it’s so refreshing because not everybody on insta needs to know everything and I post food and football on there 😂😂😂
Clubbing is dead and has been replaced by fitness & wellness.
Ppl used to party to socialize and date but now they do things like HYROX, bathhouses, and running raves.
The death of clubbing is something to be studied:
— US has lost 12% of its nightclubs in the last 24 months
— 25% of US adults didn’t drink at all last year
— Gen Z drinks 30% less than Millennials did at the same age
On the flip side:
— According to Strava, the number of running clubs recorded on the platform increased 3.5x in 2025
— 72% of Gen Z go to run clubs to meet new people
— Sauna and spa market: $11.8B → $22.4B by 2034
The post-alcohol economy is gonna be a massive category.
£80,000 a year in the UK in 2026 buys you the life your dad had on £25,000 in the late 1990s.
Take-home on £80K after tax, NI and student loan: roughly £4,400 a month.
A 25-year-old earning that in London, Manchester or Bristol pays £1,400 in rent for a one-bed, £350 on council tax, energy and water, £200 on transport, £600 on food and going out, £400 on the car, £150 on the gym and subscriptions.
That leaves around £1,300 a month. After clothes, holidays, weddings, gifts and the occasional repair, savings land at £6,000-£8,000 a year on a top-10% income.
Your dad bought a house on a wage from the bottom half of the country at 28.
Something has gone seriously wrong with the deal.
I get really curious about London sometimes because my job randomly makes half as much there. And people still do it. They wear dress shirts and go to the office and live in this amazing, expensive city even though they are randomly not given any money
🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham has pledged to scrap business rates for shops, cafes and hairdressers - and reduce them by 20% for pubs
It would be funded by increasing taxes on online tech giants and their British warehouses
[@Telegraph]