Back on the booze

Well to be fair I’ve not been off the booze, but I am I’m afraid going to go on about the increasing anti-drink agenda. I begin to sympathise with stuck records the world over. They are as Leg Iron has often observed using exactly the same tactics as they did with smoking. Camra and the pub trade are once more, as again LegIron observed, putting up no resistance but just hoping they’ll somehow be spared. The puritans are so blatant and unimaginative in their tactics that even the mainstream media is starting to pick up on it. But then again … Continue reading

Modern comparitive hypocrisy

Travelling into town to partake of a few sherberts in a drinking house of my acquaintance, I happened to pick up the Evening Standard. Being an infrequent reader of the printed press, there was much that caught my eye, not least the very different emphasis on news presented therein compared to what I stumble across within my daily RSS feeds. However it was a fortuitous day to read a paper as Mr Huhne had just been charged, and a certain detail within that article did make my wonder (just as it did Fausty). Mt Huhne is a multi millionaire, though … Continue reading

Are they related?

Hot on the heals of forcing up the costs of DVD’s and all sorts of gadgets for the rest of us by closing a vat loophole. Private Eye proudly reports that the Quooker is a “quook of shite” thus getting egg on the face of many upmarket newspapers that advertised it (P11 Eye 1305). Sadly for reasons of space it would seem they didn’t have time to report that a certain well known satirical magazine has also been more than happy to take the advertisers shilling for the self same product (Eye passim). As the two scans above show (I … Continue reading