Coughlans Bakery: another casualty of the high street’s decline ^75.2%

UnHerd - By Jack Burke - 7/3/2026, 3:00 PM

Biased Writer Voice 47% - Negativity Bias 30% - Appeal to Emotion 20.6%

Coughlans Bakery survived the Blitz. It survived rationing, three recessions, the 2008 crash, and a decade of austerity. But it did not survive April’s rise in National Insurance, and the general low-grade hostility toward trying to run a high-street business in 2026. The 89-year-old bakery, which has 31 shops across the South East and... more