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About Stephen Yorke

After Cambridge University and a few years at the Commercial/Chancery Bar, Stephen spent two years in John Major’s Political Office at Number 10. He then laboured on the FX/ Bond trading floors of two investment banks during the 1990s. In 2004 he founded (and ran until this year) a small Real estate Fund management company. In 2017 he founded 'The Property Chronicle' and is now a new boy publisher.

Recent Posts by Stephen Yorke:

Prop. Notes: The spy who saved me…

Reflections on lockdown: LBJ, JFK, terrible TV ads and coffee bags

Prop. Notes: Our proprietor ruminates on brushes with two very different billionaires

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Prop. Notes: An opportunity for our proprietor to ruminate on life, London, property and golf

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Thatcher – my part in her downfall…

Prop. Notes

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Prop. Notes: Our Proprietor invents the Marlon Brando test for industry awards and misses some old City ways

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Prop. Notes: WeWork, Bakelite telephones and London tribes

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Prop. Notes: Our Proprietor ruminates on Enoch Powell vs Roy Jenkins vs Tony Benn, negative interest rates and the crassness of BA

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Prop. Notes: our Proprietor on Patisserie Valerie, James Mason, Nick Candy and Frank Warren

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