Pinking shears were designed and patented by Louise Austin in Washington in 1893. Before this invention, the pretty zig-zag design they created could only be replicated by trained pinking tortoises. 🔊

Hi! Lifelong sufferer of depression here. As well as being potentially misleading, statements like this—especially amid a period of such uncertainty—can be immensely triggering for those struggling with their mental health! Stop stigmatising the right to enjoy alcohol!

If you can't do your job without bullying people then you can't do your job.

Time and again, news outlets have attributed the country's accelerating economic disaster to Covid. This is *false*. It is an incompetent government's absurd response to Covid which has killed jobs and businesses, and sunk us in impossible debt.

Ouch

How the government sees it 🙄

UK Government & devolved Governments/administrations: #SaveOurPubs with an urgent support package - #SupportPubsNOW: - Sign the Petition! chng.it/TJmfXmbc via Change.org UK

It’s outrageous you can have a pint in a theatre, concert hall, cinema or sports ground without a substantial meal, but not the pub. It is a slap in the face of pubs and brewers. beerandpub.com/2020/12/01/new…

Sense from Pete Brown, as usual - no sense from this government, as usual petebrown.net/2020/12/01/why…

I just want to stand at the bar of a wet-led pub drinking a pint of decent cask beer and listening to the crack and feeling the buzz of a proper pub. 😣

I would like to invite people to study this information, think about it and then tell me what conclusions you draw from it. Alex Reilley Tom Kerridge Kate Nicholls OBE Adam Brooks AKA EssexPR 🇬🇧 Gagan Mohindra MP Toby Perkins MP @EmmaLewellBuck Oisín Rogers Simon Emeny Emma McClarkin OBE Jackie Doyle-Price Adam Holloway MP

"Brick by brick." Well done Westminster City Council! If other boroughs did this, the accidental burnings & demolitions by impatient developers would not happen.

DEAR Boris Johnson HOW HAS YOUR DAY BEEN? Our day has been fun filled with refunding EU customers because your ‘oven ready’ deal means that it is currently prohibited to ship our beers via DPDgroup to Europe... oh well at least the fish are happier according to your mate x

Lament & nostalgia for our favourite British institution - support any lockdown offer where you can, if you can - but keep the memories coming until we're back through the doors #LoveYourLocal #MissingThePub

Can we get 100,000 RETWEETS? Just one word RESIGN

#Budget2021 #VAT cut does not include alcohol, only food & hospitality accommodation. Does not help stricken wet-led pubs. Biz rates holiday extended to June. Some pubs may still face bankruptcy repaying debt, claw back of rent holiday, that grants & reopening trade may not cover

Discrimination v. hospitality: non essential retail open despite risky behaviours Discrimination within hospitality: coffee shops open for takeaway coffee despite socialising outside Discrimination within pub sector: wet led most at risk missing out on VAT cut #savePUBS plse RT

Boris Johnson moved into my house exactly two years ago. It feels much longer.

Beginning to look like sending a few cans to Nadine Dorries wasn’t a great idea.