Does a pub really need to offer a choice of five draft lagers, five ales, three draft crafts, a couple of ciders, and a stout?

I know a few local pubs who in the past 18 months have cut non-essentials (food has a high GP but its effect on the bottom line can me massively costly if food doesn’t drive footfall) and reduced their range to try to get prices down, and FWIW they seem to be the pubs that are doing better.

Bush was a terrible president but simply impossible to imagine a Republican saying this about Pelosi or anyone else today.

I once came up against an enormous wall sorting out an external course reviewer from an Irish university whom I was told had to undergo right to work checks despite the fact that it wasn’t employment and she wouldn’t even be setting foot in the U.K.

Perhaps because I’m a rural kid I think my unpopular political opinion is “food is too cheap”, but I probably should refine it to “all the wrong things are cheap and all the wrong things are expensive”. I would put most things from Poundland in the former category.

Almost certainly in breach of The Consumer Protection (Code of Practice for Traders on Price Indications) Approval Order 2005.

Just an agonising few kilometres away from the starving, thousands of tons of food aid lies wasting in the sun as the Israeli blockade continues.

Gaza is now being systematically starved. The war crime of the 21st century.

REST OF THE WORLD UPDATE: Still watching.

(🎥 BBC)

Supply chains just aren’t there for deer. Ten years ago the market planned for a shortage and reliance on imports. The need for culls (climate, rewilding, etc), however, has shifted the dial massively but it’s difficult to get the venison to market.

PDFs display the same on every device and if they’re printed. From an academic perspective it’s very difficult - usually impossible - to do any sort of pinpoint citation to a website.