{"id":267644,"date":"2025-11-17T10:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T10:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/267644\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T10:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T10:50:09","slug":"ft-alphaville-drinks-ii-back-in-the-habit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/267644\/","title":{"rendered":"FT Alphaville Drinks II \u2014 Back in the Habit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for free<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__content-sign-up-topic-description o3-type-body-base\">Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>In the summer we arranged an \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/b4ba09b3-029a-432f-ba12-bcc3a52c8422\" title=\"\" data-trackable=\"link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">informal, zero-agenda, zero-tickets drinks shindig in London<\/a>\u201d. Despite the absence of charts and questions (OK probably because of it), a lot of people turned up, so we\u2019re doing it again.<\/p>\n<p>This time the date will be November 19 \u2014 this coming Wednesday. Yes, it\u2019s extremely short notice, but the best events are always badly planned. <\/p>\n<p>The venue is once again The Wren Tavern \u2014 that\u2019s 67-69 Watling Street, London <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/kBBMtRAPuerY616x7\" title=\"\" data-trackable=\"link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EC4M 9DD<\/a> \u2014 but this time we\u2019ll probably be huddled in the innermost area rather than enjoying the sunshine. If we book another area then we&#8217;ll update this post.<\/p>\n<p>Louis is still on his extended disaster tourism tour and Bryce is unavailable, but Toby and Robin will be there, plus a few in addition to whatever MainFT colleagues we can bully into coming along (Katie Martin has already said she\u2019s coming at least). We\u2019ll be there from about 5pm onwards.<\/p>\n<p>So if you\u2019re in the market for a quick drink after work that day then mosey on over. We promise we won\u2019t try to make you guess which decade the Federal Reserve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/ab0aac18-609f-4804-bdad-012e59ace114\" title=\"\" data-trackable=\"link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">both cut and raised interest rates in every single calendar year<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-267644","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}