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Real Ale Has An Image Problem
We must kill the image of the Tetley’s man in his fox hunting pinks… and drag real ale kicking and screaming into the 21st century where it can reclaim its place as a drink for the people.
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Cases of You
A small collection of five billet-doux about sharing food and drink with the people you love.
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Pubs, Piss and Politics: Interpreting the EHRC Code for Trans-Friendly Hospitality Venues
How can hospitality venues remain trans-friendly following the publishing of the EHRC Code of Practice. And the wider political context.
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If Not This, Then What?
A few weeks of being asked if I was ‘getting a proper job’ prompts me to head to the pub and think about paths not taken and the lot of the bartender.
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Don’t Look Down
When your work demands that you shift between several different versions of yourself every day, how do you remember which version is really you when it comes to spending time away from the bar?
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Ye Olde (First and Last) Trip
Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem is a perfect distillation of everything that is wrong with big pub groups like Greene King. In the palm of their hand they had something so utterly unique and brimming with character, but they closed their hulking fist and moulded it until it fit neatly and undistinguishable amongst all of…
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Addiction to Anonymity
People are best observed from the perspective of the stranger. I sit in a pub that is foreign to me, relishing the morsels of humanity offered to me, which are vanishingly rare in many other aspects of modern life.
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We Don’t Need Another Hero
The culture of the hospitality, and specifically the pub, industry needs to change if we are going to have any chance of surviving the threat posed by late stage capitalism.
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