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Cheap beer in supermarkets? As I was writing my post on British pub closures, I touched upon one of the most commonly cited reasons for pubs going to the wall. Supermarkets often take the blame for a change in British drinking culture. The theory goes that by offering drinks at considerably cheaper prices than pubs, [...]
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52 pub closures every week If you believed everything you read, then you’d probably be under the impression that the British pub is going the way of the dodo. According to the British Beer and Pub Association, 52 pubs are closing down every week. Read the media reports, and it’s a national tragedy. Smoking bans, [...]
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The end of free news? News International proprietor Rupert Murdoch has signalled his intention to end the era of free content on the internet. He has not yet announced how he will do this, but it is likely that his newspaper websites will be introducing some sort of charges in the next year. This means [...]
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Aside from winning the Grumpy Traveller award for the world’s most staggeringly obvious headline, this BBC story officially kills swine flu off as a bogeyman. It seems as though some people are arranging parties to enable them to catch swine flu before it mutates into something last seen on 28 Weeks Later. This, to me, [...]