Category: Pubs/Beer
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The Best Seat in the House
As I sit in The Free Trade Inn, Newcastle, glancing enviously at the couple on the stools a few feet away from me, I wonder what is in the making of the best pub seats and how do we attribute value to different forms of comfort?
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Closed For Christmas
The “closing for Christmas” conversation can cause friction between service workers and customers, but neither are to blame for the situation we are in, we must look to capitalism’s unsutainable obsession with availability and convenience to identify the real issue.
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When the Pillars Crumble
Community provision, not alcohol dispension, is the most imporant function of a good pub. So it is any surprise that our capitalist government are doing next to nothing to stop the tide of pub closures all over the UK?
