Internet Chats and Community Radio
CAMRA Biography: Well things are really hotting up with just a month to go until my book is released. I have been doing a huge number of interviews for radio...
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Why is there a brewery in the desert?
Egyptian brewery: There is always a lot of excitement when an ancient brewing story makes the papers. The national press love talking about our ancestors making booze. Today the papers...
50 Years of CAMRA
Unbelievably my book, 50 Years of CAMRA, is now available for pre-ordering from the CAMRA website. It will be released on the actual day of CAMRA’s 50th anniversary – 16th...
Tiny Rebel? Not any more thanks
Tiny Rebel Sexism: It feels like we have made great headway tackling misogyny, sexism and general discrimination within the beer and pub industry as a whole in recent years. But...
Hospitality UK: A Year in Review
Coronavirus has brought hospitality and events to their knees this year. Enforced closures and paltry support abounds. We look to 2021 we look through a glass darkly for the future...
#PubsMatter
Over the last few days people have been taking to social media to tell the world why #PubsMatter to them. The industry continues to suffer and die under the impossible...
The Substantial Meal – prohibition and the UK
SUBSTANTIAL MEAL: There have been a lot of fun conspiracy theories about the influence of the temperance lobby on UK policy recently. It is pretty clear that hospitality has been...
#LeicesterLockdown: The Food Edition
I have decided I need to get used to blogging with a little more brevity than I’m used to, what with an 8 week old in tow who does not...
