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Why cash is still king to me

In defence of hard cash

22 January 2022

9:00 AM

22 January 2022

9:00 AM

I recently set out on a simple mission: to break the £10 note in my purse so I’d have a five to put in the church collection plate on Sunday. My first attempt backfired. The café, where my order was delivered with an eye-roll of metro disdain, no longer accepted cash payments.

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