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The Market Porter (here) another Borough boozer that i have just remembered. think i may have meant here when i said the Royal Oak, thus it was here a top day of cricketing viewing was had. dunno where you live Hucks but what do you normally do if you fancy a day of big televised sport...

i think the Old King's Head, Borough should be OK. (i've seen golf and footy in there and it's convivial without being a world-beater, but has a peculiarly just right feel, despite other pubs nearby being technically far more spectacular in some cases.) London Bridge or Borough are pretty good...

no real rhyme or reason to these (since some are pretty different, though there's a definite abstract curve running through a couple shall we say, and tbf none of them are hungry young things - i mean they're all contemporary in the sense of still going [!] w the exception of Fred Williams who...

(drools at Baboon's link ;) ) given how the new govt has been rightly getting plaudits for seeking to reverse a lot of Lab's awful civil lib stuff, this 55% thing is a bit of an odd one. from a hard-nosed coalition leadership pov you can see why they're going for it, but i believe Crackerjack...

Sian Lloyd man, eh Baboon?

well certainly for last year, it's little acorns as the growth is not much, but it is there (and you know in the midst of a recession w a lot of pubs closing and supermarkets selling canned beer as a loss leader) nicked from here

btw Matt i know you are going to Ireland for cultural/nature/music etc reasons but if you are in Dublin for a night or two (i would spam this thread w loads of views of micros etc in different Irish cities but i gather Dublin is your base so i will leave it at that) and in the perhaps unlikely...

Question Time was great yday. anyone? obviously she's a loon but Mel as ever gave good copy. Hezza being a bit patrician and fairly agreeable in his own 'doesn't buy his own furniture' way, Hughes made some very fair points about NuLab's appalling civil libs record, whilst generally being a bit...

ooh York and chocolate, two favourite things of mine :cool: as for the smell, yeah, not just Edinburgh, though perhaps it's more obvious there (for a start, isn't there at least one brewery in Edinburgh in the town itself, i dunno like, but i'm thinking that Caledonian brewery might be; quite a...

i agree, it does seem strange. GK (and i suppose a few others, like Fullers', or Thwaites in the northwest of England) are deffo a special case AFAIK. they are so big, the biggest of the big cask ale producers (along w the likes of Wells & Young), that w all their profits they started to get...

well, we all know what happened to the UK's gold, massrock... ;)

and so the other way for MPS. righto.

as a % of income, surely the poor? (do you know the answer Vim, or are you just being rhetorical?!) oh btw m_b, a fair point. i just meant from say the Gini coefficient pov etc. that's a good starting basis to ground these sorts of chats.

i was also going to have a go at asking about the first bracketed aside in m_b's point number 1 earlier (which, tbf to m_b, they somewhat tentatively introduced w the word "perhaps"), but this is a shorter and better reply than what i was about to say. the point w producers being paid over the...

David Blanchflower was on Ch4 News last night. interesting comments re his old mucker Mervyn King. i wonder what Warsi really said at that speech?

knowing you, T, knowing you :p

seconded. nice one that paper re economics and violent conflict Vim, will have a look later. btw, greatly appreciated your recent composite/House of War post re Estonian austerity.

that'd be good.

you mistake me. i certainly didn't mean to imply any of the potential govts that we were facing on the morning of May 6th wouldn't be doing just that, of course (and if my post read that way, i apologise for any potential sloppiness); i was looking ahead and noting the business background...

small differences.