Wonderful #pub story. ❤️ The Vine, Pitshill, Stoke saved at auction by genuine pub lovers. Now reopened & restored as a fully #independent #freehouse. Rightly recognised with a CAMRA Heritage Award. 🍻🏆 www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-trent-news/stoke-trents-back-street-boozer-10753883

Real concerns that the Government’s U-turn on the #BusinessRatesBetrayal will be a wholly inadequate sticking plaster. The unfair & dodgy revaluation MUST be scrapped or bills will still spiral. #Pubs need the promised genuine & PERMANENT reform of unfair & outdated #BusinessRates system.

It was great to catch up with Paul from @campaignforpubs.bsky.social and @jonnygarrett.bsky.social at the @theswanyork.bsky.social yesterday for few drinks and a wide ranging chat about pubs! #pubs

If you can spare 14 mins please listen to my chat with the splendid @nicklove.bsky.social on @jorvikradio.bsky.social We covered the #BusinessRatesBetrayal, what makes #pubs so special and why @campaignforpubs.bsky.social is different and so important. HNY! 🍻 2026 ❤️ pubs youtu.be/N6FJSw3La98

Nice article that underplays one crucial point. Both #pubs are entirely #independent & free from the clutches of pubcos. Traditional #pubs can really thrive when there's no greedy corporate landlord extracting excessive profit & restricting drinks to generic brands. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The #budget is coming so expect the global brewers & pubcos to ramp up their perennial self-serving nonsense about #beerduty. Don't be conned. 1p off duty won't save a single pub. It'll just make corporations richer and more powerful. Our new @campaignforpubs.bsky.social blog post explains all.

Thanks @thecaterermag.bsky.social for requesting an opinion piece on last week's licensing reform furore. Our sector deserve better than mere spin when so many #pubs & #hospitality businesses are gripped in an existential crisis. @campaignforpubs.bsky.social www.thecaterer.com/indepth/why-...

Beautiful set from @modernnature.bsky.social tonight. York is so lucky to have both @thecrescentyork.bsky.social and @pleasepleaseyou.bsky.social ❤️

Rather than doing all the good things quietly and all the shitty things loudly, maybe Labour should shout about the good things it's doing and stop doing the shitty things altogether instead. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

It’s Cask Ale Week! 18th to 28th September. Enjoy the UK’s national drink in the best place…the #pub! Support #caskale in #pubs, especially the UK’s many amazing independent breweries! #caskaleweek #realale #supportpubs #supportourpubs #backourbrewers

Why would a pubco seek to flog off 23 #pub freeholds along with good long term tenants? Surely not because these are fair Free of Tie leases which no longer allow the excessive profit extraction that underpins the entire over-leveraged tied pubco model..? savills.co.uk/insight-and-op…

A wonderful outcome for this gorgeous proper back street #pub. Once at chronic risk of loss, it seems The Vine, Pithill has ended up in truly safe hands. People still crave true #community locals, and #independent ownership is the absolute ideal. 🍻❤️👍 www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-o...

Cheers Dave! 😊🍻

Truly wonderful photos of our pub and a lovely endorsement too. Thanks so much Richard!

Excellent and well-deserved swipe at the way the dead hand of corporatism consistently degrades even the most potentially special of pubs.

Good blog by @totalcurtis.bsky.social here. Policy makers and the CMA cannot keep turning a blind eye to the anti-competitive state of the corporate-dominated #UK #beer and #pub market. @campaignforpubs.bsky.social geterbrewed.com/blog/2025/05/1…

🚨The UK beer and pub sector is in crisis, buckling under ever rising costs while still being brazenly hollowed out with full government consent by a toxic asset-sweating/stripping 🏴‍☠️ cartel of pubcos and global brewers. So it's good to see our main trade journal focusing on the big issues as ever...

Bravo @zoejardiniere.bsky.social It's truly shameful that we so rarely get to hear this kind of basic honesty, decency and sense in our public discourse these days, over the constant amplification of the easy-answer, inhumane nonsense churned out ad nauseum by divisive con artists.

One we missed when it was first published — Pubs’ roles in tackling loneliness by Glynn Davis beerinsider.com/pubs-roles-i...

@privateeyenews.bsky.social is the ONLY news source to have been consistently right about the #GreatBritishPubcoScam over the years 🍻 Just as they were about the #PostOfficeScandal 📮✊ We REALLY need the rest of the media to wake up to the havoc being wrought on #pubs, #livelihoods & #communities ⚠️

There is just one important piece of info here, and it's that the team are quitting a pubco-owned pub & looking for a freehold instead. If only @dailymirrornews.bsky.social had delved into that, this article could have been so much more. @campaignforpubs.bsky.social www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrit...

Huge honour to have featured in this episode of this beautiful series, along with @professorpub.bsky.social in The Swan. This entire series by @craftbeerchannel.bsky.social is a must-watch love letter to UK #cask ale and #pubs. All for a great cause too! Essential viewing. 🎥🍻 youtu.be/PyD8TmmRScY

Loved being part of this series/episode and being able to talk about how important pubs are and their relationship with cask beer at @theswanyork.bsky.social! Brin the dog will be happy to have been featured too! #pubs

With business rates relief ending soon, a new survey reveals that four in 10 hospitality operators don’t expect their businesses to survive the year beertoday.co.uk/2025/03/23/h... #hospitality #businessrates #survey @bionicbusiness.bsky.social

🍻 Wayne at YO1 Radio gave myself & MP @rachaelmaskell.bsky.social time for a proper in-depth chat about the ongoing decades-long corporate assault on #UKpubs. Things won't improve for #pubs or #independent #craft #brewers until Govt & @cmagovuk.bsky.social act. www.yo1radio.co.uk/podcasts1/as...

Latest great #KeepCaskAlive film by @craftbeerchannel.bsky.social. 🍻 The wonderful symbiosis between Harveys and both Lewes FC and @officialbhafc.bsky.social just shows how much similar potential is routinely squandered in venues that can't see past ubiquitous global brands. youtu.be/bnogGqLTzX4

Every #beer we recently received from Mallinsons has been absolutely superb. This Jester is no exception. An absolute cracker! All #pubs really should have fair access to wonderful local independent #beers like this. #keepcaskalive 🍻❤️

A handsome boy and a handsome beer, in a very handsome pub!

Here's Brad from @craftbeerchannel.bsky.social supping a pint of our very own Swan Session Blonde in the intro to Pt6 of their brilliant #KeepCaskAlive documentary series. 🍻 Fascinating & hugely worthwhile film project with a valuable @unesco.org goal. Check it out! 🎥 youtu.be/D8LiB6yvlx4?si…

We are looking forward to Support an Independent Pub Day this Saturday! 🍻 Get out and visit an independent #pub on Saturday! 🍺🍷🍽️ While you’re there, drink independent beer or other drinks! 🍻🍸 #SupportanIndependentPubDay #SupportOurPubs #SupportPubs #pubs #BackOurBrewers

More musing, more pubs atjpubs.substack.com/p/the-histor...

Very glad to have been able to chip in a location as well as a few comments alongside @jedmeers.bsky.social & @professorpub.bsky.social for this project. Looks like being a great series in a very worthy cause. Lets hope UNESCO agree! #KeepCaskAlive 🍻

So true. There are many well documented and clearly evidenced ways that well-run pubs are a force for great good in our communities. Problem drinking is far more a result of cheap off-sales of high strength drinks, and overwhelmingly occurs hidden away from the supervised, social setting of the pub.

"Horrors all around if you follow politics & current affairs, but something to be said for peace in the local @theswanyork.bsky.social Well said!

This sounds good!

@labourlewis.bsky.social is spot on. 👌 Soliciting for corporate and private equity will only lead to "growth" for a few at the top. Workers, independent SMEs and communities never feel the benefit. The pub #pub and #beer sector is a case study in this folly, but it applies across the board.

Very happy we can provide a refuge. 🍻😊

Or even better... If you can watch the #SixNations in your local #community #pub then why not enjoy each match with loads of friends and a proper hand-pulled pint or two of the stuff! 😊🍻 @timothytaylors.bsky.social @northernmonk.bsky.social @campaignforpubs.bsky.social

Forget nationalisation. Only public ownership can protect our resources and rebuild trust. Water isn’t a commodity—it’s a public good. Privatisation has failed: rising bills, crumbling infrastructure, and polluted rivers. Labour must listen. #PublicOwnership labourlist.org/2025/01/cliv...

The looming cut in #businessrates relief is a huge blow for #retail and #hospitality. For a great many 75% slashed to 40% is business-changing on its own, even without NI and other changes. The relief should not have been cut before the broken system was fully reformed as promised. #politicslive

A pleasure @culturalclare.bsky.social 👍🍻 @campaignforpubs.bsky.social is now here too ✊

Happy #BurnsNight or Oidhche Bhlas Burns! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 A great excuse to have a #weedram in the #pub..! 🥃 (Or something else..!) 🍺🍷🍸🥤🍽️😁) #SupportOurPubs #HappyBurnsNight #Scotland #pubs #haggis #supportpubs

This! We met business Minister Justin Madders yesterday to relay our grave concerns at #CampaignForPubs about systematic anti-competitive practices in the UK #beer and #pub sector, and huge consequent #wealthextraction by offshore private equity propcos and global brewing giants. #anti-#growth

Pleased to re-enter civilisation on here. I'll be posting nice stuff about lovely #pubs and #beer 🍻❤️, and horrid stuff about heinous pubcos 🤬. Building pro-pub resistance at campaignforpubs.org.uk and your support would be particularly super! ✊ (Feed may also contain traces of music/politics.)