Reporting from the front lines of the relentless drive to get back to normal, no matter what.

Reporting from the front lines of the relentless drive to get back to normal, no matter what.
Closing pubs at 10 pm will do nothing to combat the second Covid wave, but everything to further destabilise and demonise drinking.
In this episode, we chat to beer blogger and alcohol influencer Cooking Lager about the reopening of pubs this weekend, the experience of returning to the boozer after months of isolation, the joys of Wetherspoons, cultural snobbery and eccentric pub chain owners. Best enjoyed with a beer in hand.
Keri O’Shea returns to the pub after three months, and lives to tell the tale.
Is the Sunday Roast in a can a work of genius or beer finally jumping the shark?
Moral campaigners and social control freaks are trying to use the current crisis to force through more restrictions on how we live.
The advertising censors get worked up about the idea of someone having more than two pints of lager in a session.
Reserving a table at a pub makes you one of the world’s biggest monsters.