John Lanchester · Squillions: Where’s all the cash? (opens in new tab)

John Lanchester | London Review Of Books | 13th May 2026 | BIcan’t​ remember the last time I used cash. My bank statements show that I haven’t made a withdrawal from a cashpoint in the last twelve months. That’s just as well, since it’s significantly more of an effort to get hold of cash than it used to be. Before the pandemic, there were seven cashpoints within a five-minute walk from my house. All of them have now gone: the four attached to banks disappeared when the branches closed, the tw...