After Austria’s deadliest shooting, gun reform is no longer avoidable
The Graz shooting has pierced the illusion that legal gun ownership guarantees safety, and the country’s political parties can’t sit on the fence any longer.
Pubs
Farage and Tories spy an opening as small businesses turn on Labour
The government’s rivals are circling after tax hikes burned the bridges that Rachel Reeves had painstakingly built before the election.
Booze and bets in Benidorm: welcome to the Costa del Cheltenham
Standing room only in pubs and bars long before the action begins, thousands of British tourists now enjoy the festival in the Spanish hotspotA bell rings for half past happy hour on Cheltenham festival eve in a city that has discarded time.Not entirel…
‘Who can save Ukraine?’: Papers reflect on three years of war
PRESS REVIEW – Monday, February 24: The German press has reaction to and analysis of the conservative CDU-CSU bloc’s election victory, as the far-right AfD win their most votes ever. Elsewhere, it’s three years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Uk…
‘Kids now don’t want to drink’: Dublin’s dry(ish) pub, one year on
Board’s clientele come for its big array of drinks – no longer all alcohol-free – and even bigger array of gamesDoing Glastonbury sober is a challenge most music-festival fans would decline.But it was just that experience that inspired Trevor O’Shea to…
Why Nigel Farage’s path to power runs through a rainswept seaside town
The Reform leader has aspirations to enter 10 Downing Street as prime minister in a few years hence — but will his globetrotting ways and love of the camera cause disillusion among his new constituents?
British pubs are changing — but is it enough?
Group valuations have fallen over the past decade but there are signs that larger companies can still eke out growth
Room at the inn: a dozen of the best British pubs for a winter weekend
A new breed of pubs is combining good food and roaring fires with bedrooms you’d actually want to stay in
The future is bright for beer – given the right policy framework
Beer plays an important role in Europe’s economy, but excise burdens, production costs and the post-Covid environment are putting pressure on the sector’s ability to act as a motor for the whole economy.
Prague bars pub crawls
City council calls time on organized bar-hopping to quell “disruptive behavior.”
‘People have a right to clean water’: Austria’s far right rides wave of public anger as election nears
The anti-asylum, pro-Kremlin FPÖ is leading the polls amid growing frustration over the political status quoFear, uncertainty and suspicion are running high in Klagenfurt, southern Austria, before Sunday’s high-stakes parliamentary election, in which t…
The UK is losing its storied pubs due to tax and inflation
The country lost more than 50 pubs a month in the first half of 2024. Already hard hit by inflation and Brexit, the industry has suffered several tax hikes.
Nigel Farage says Brits will revolt if government shuts pubs early
Minister suggests ‘tightening up the hours of operation’ for Britain’s boozers.
Nigel Farage channels Eminem, then preaches to the Reform megachurch
The Reform UK leader basked in an election upset — and urged his party to get fighting fit for the next one.
Nigel Farage threatens to stop going to the pub
The Reform UK leader’s protest comes as Britain mulls a ban on smoking outside pubs.
Humiliated, Scotland’s independence warriors lick their wounds
The Tories may have been kicked out of government, but for the Scottish National Party, July’s U.K. election may prove terminal.
Edinburgh pubs: a connoisseur’s selection
The city is famed for its multitude of watering holes, from the colourfully traditional (often centuries-old) to the coolly contemporary
Wetherspoon’s boss Tim Martin praises economic ‘pedigree’ of Rachel Reeves
Brexit supporter calls for new chancellor to ‘rectify tax inequality’ in hospitality industryTim Martin, the politically outspoken boss of the JD Wetherspoon pub chain, has praised the new Labour chancellor’s economic “pedigree”, as he called for tax c…
EU Socialists’ lead candidate Nicolas Schmit warns against ‘arrangement’ with far right
He’s been seen campaigning on empty beer crates in pubs and playing table tennis. Talking Europe catches up with the lead candidate of the Party of The European Socialists (PES) and asks him what he has learned in this EU election campaign, away from …
Stout and about: a Guinness pub crawl across London
Our writer explores the rise of the capital’s most fashionable pint — and the pubs that conjure that all-important ‘Guinnessness’ vibe
All You Need Is Death review – Irish horror finds evil in taboo folk ballad recording
The story of two historians unleashing evil while recording a song is a strong idea and there are good moments and performances, but it is too chaotic and unfocused to resonatePaul Duane is the film-maker who in 2011 made Barbaric Genius, a gripping do…
Ireland’s smoking ban 20 years on: how an unheralded civil servant triumphed against big tobacco
Tom Power led an alliance that brought about the pioneering health initiative which has since been adopted by more than 70 countries – and has saved countless livesExactly 20 years ago an Irish civil servant named Tom Power won a remarkable battle agai…
Where populists rush in: How George Galloway harnessed the Middle East to derail an election in forgotten Rochdale
Victory for pro-Palestinian firebrand follows the ugliest by-election campaign in living memory.
Plato, pilates and pubs: has an Irish town found the secret to the good life?
Book claims it is ‘hard to find another currently existing society’ better than that in Skerries, near DublinPhilosophers have long debated the concept of the good life and whether such an exalted state exists but the reality turns out to be not so elu…
The best pubs (and a wine bar) in London’s West End
From hundreds of contenders, our tireless correspondents select their top 10 watering holes in the UK capital’s playground
Don’t say the craic of doom has come for Ireland’s pubs | Alex Clark
You don’t have to be a big drinker to be worried by the declining number of bars in the republic. Luckily, we’ve still got six in our townA question for the times: is there anywhere in the world where you can’t get a pint of Guinness in a joint draped …
‘It all disappeared with Brexit’: Craft beer boom ends as more than 100 UK firms go bust
New trade barriers were compounded by Covid and tax changesKimi Karjalainen and his brother Marko poured their life savings into Bone Machine Brewing Co when it opened in Pocklington, East Yorkshire, in 2017 before moving to Hull, as part of the craft …