Tag: Community
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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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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?
8-Bits and Bobs 