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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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The Session: The Best Beer You Can Drink At Home Right Now
The best beer you can drink at home right now…is a beer in the bath.
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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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