Been a bit tardy on here, so some Xmas beery highlights.

A perfect pint of #grainbrewery Best Bitter @WRacehorse and a seasonal @dedolle.bsky.social Stille Nacht 2024 at home before the Coq au Vin.

Everything you need to know about the US’ slow turn against the EU.

He’s blocked me, but I’m sure Tommy Stephen Yaxley-Lennon Robinson is chuffed to feature in my ‘2025’ 1000 piece jigsaw 👇👇👇 www.coldwarsteve.com/2025/11/18/u...

Hard to believe this is happening right now. Entire cities being massacred.

Israeli supporters trying to use the massacres in Sudan to wash their hands of their own complicity in the genocide in Gaza, you can stop. Israel is ending the ceasefire, you can go back to defending that mass murder. At least 100 people were killed by Israel since the ceasefire begun.

New visualisations reveal the serious impact of huge 50-metre pylons across the Essex countryside. See pictures that show how the landscape will be permanently altered by the Norwich to Tilbury transmission line. Piers Meyler reports

What would Jesus do? Get pepper sprayed like the rest of us, standing up to oppression.

Here’s something beer related! I spent most of my Saturday cutting together a video I shot at @sirencraftbrew.bsky.social’s time hops festival and it’s a fun two min watch in the documentary style. Give it a watch over on Instagram: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZML9b...

Who could ever have imagined when I played a fictional rebel who joined the Resistance to oppose a criminal Authoritarian & wannabe King, it would be happening in real-life? #TwentyfiveFortyseven

If you shop at Waitrose you can find my article on the history of pubs in the October edition of their magazine, which is out now. It won't be online, so if you fancy a few quail eggs, or perhaps a rosemary and potato sourdough loaf, consider grabbing the mag for a gander while you're in.

One of the biggest selections of Cask beer at any UK beer fest, 1000s of pints to be pulled. @camraofficial.bsky.social #PeterboroughBeerFestival opens this evening to Saturday, on the river Embankment, minutes from Peterborough railway station. #BskyBeer

The UK faces a future of rising drought risk - yet regulators allow water firms to neglect their responsibilities to build infrastructure, fix leaks, continuing a system with poorly monitored water use, rewarding high use, writes Watershed's @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social share.google/jOM3sEm9TBZS...

No one sums up the utter shamelessness of the British press and the ugly politics of Farage quite like Private Eye.

Good to see Rosie Holt MP going after these dangerous terrorists.

I’m back from my trip to Turkey after having had a few (ahem) procedures. Only one problem. I seem to be attracting millions of bloody moths. 😡

Sad news from Elgood's Brewery. I met Scruffy a few times on visits to see Head Brewer Alan Pateman. Her appearance on the wort cooler during an IBD brewery tour will live on. RIP 🐈‍⬛🌈

Russia struck a civilian bus in the Sumy region, killing three women aged 66, 74, and 78. Just like that. A bus. No reason, no military justification. Pure terrorism.

Not. A. Victim. Ghislaine Maxwell was found guilty of sexually abusing children. Yes. Children. She herself. That was in addition to recruiting grooming for Jeff Epstein. 1/

It beggars belief that this keeps happening. No wonder we’re broke, our governments keep letting themselves get ripped off by private companies over and over again

⚠️ ICYMI: Shock As Parents Sentenced To Six Weeks Summer Holidays. 🌍 Forget #BBCBreakfast - this is #BrokenNews. Please like and share. youtu.be/2S9q2bR44CY?...

At @fightingdirty.bsky.social, we sued over this issue, and lost on the grounds that the Environment Agency couldn't be in breach because the government had issued no direction. An absurdity, which means that poisons continue to be spread on farmland every day. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🔁PLEASE SIGN ✍🏽 & SHARE!🔁 🚨Incredibly, a candidate for MP is not required to be registered to vote or be resident in the UK.🚨 The petition asks the Government to fix this. Check it out here: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71... PS No idea why there’s a pic of Richard Tice in Dubai here.

I... I don’t even know what to say. How the hell are we,humanity, just allowing this? Drones hunting down families working in fields. This isn’t just cruel. It’s monstrous. Irrational. And yet we’ve been watching it unfold for years, doing absolutely fucking nothing.

Size of Russian-Iranian Shahed drones thst attack us every day.

Just had a cheeky little @thewinesociety.bsky.social delivery, wines from Corsica, Greece, Loire, Ribeira Saca & Bordeaux

Rachel Reeves weeping? Huh! 🤔 You’d never catch a Conservative Chancellor crying if they were in trouble. No sir! They’d simply go along to The Queen’s Funeral & have a bloody good laugh about it all!

Photo of a convicted serial sex offender. Next to P. Diddy.

Before @southlondongirl.bsky.social asks, I'm cooking a mahoosive veggie stir fry as not enough veg has been eaten for a few days!

My new fridge magnets. They're not quirky or unusual but I love their colours. I chose the windmill scene because I only got to see these famous and beautifully simple buildings from bus windows.

Home after a brilliant evening of music #theoldgranary nr Beccles seeing Strictly Wakeman raising funds for @savingstrays.bsky.social It meant a late night #beeroclock of some Belgians and cheese.

GOOD MORNING! The latest edition of news, nuggets and longreads is now up on the blog, with notes on everything from ghost breweries to German Kraft. 🍻🍺 boakandbailey.com/2025/06/news...

Israel can take out an Iranian commander 1000km away with a drone missile through a single bedroom wall, without any other damage. But to target a Hamas leader a few kilometres away, they need to raze whole neighborhoods to the ground. Is it obvious yet?

P&O has a turnover of almost £1bn. So why have they just hired an audit firm with four employees? It’s deeply, impossibly, weird. I spoke to an auditor at a firm with 200 employees who said he’d never dream of acting for a company of that size. So what’s going on? www.itv.com/news/2025-06...

this is very dangerous and will undermine childhood vaccination rates in the US as a reminder on why we vaccinate and how good they are, here is the Indie SAGE report! independentsage.org/wp-content/u...

I help people with strategies to ‘manage up’ but honestly, I hate the term. It’s not the job of someone more junior to manage you. Good leadership means making that unnecessary in the first place.

This video has racked up millions of views and been shared by Texas Senator Ted Cruz and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. While there's very real footage of LA protesters setting multiple vehicles on fire on Sunday, this particular video is from the George Floyd protests in 2020.

@anthonygladman.com Had my first Boulevardier tonight after supper on a Saga cruise to Norway. Very tasty.

A happy Friday to you - it's Day 1178 of Russia's 3-day special operation. For all the news about Ukraine and Russia, written by a journalist with years of experience in Ukraine, you're in the right place. Each and every day, I compile a new thread. All the news, all the time.

Oh FFS

I'm out delivering today, including three beers for the Kirkburton Beer Festival. If you're in the Huddersfield area, this looks like a great festival raising funds for good causes. #FolkAle #RealAle #BeerFestival #CraftBeer #CraftBeerUK

New blogpost – is German beer losing its lustre both at home and abroad? pubcurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2025/05/down...

I've just updated my rough guide to the pubs & brewpubs of, Watou, Belgium. See what's changed: www.ottosrambles.co.uk/watou.php#CA... FEEL FREE TO RE-POST 😊 #CheersToBeers 🍻 #BeerResearch 📝 #CraftBeer 🍻🥨🍻 #BeerTourist #travel #CiyGuide #Belgium #Watou #Holidays #Beer 🍺 #BskyBeer

As part of our mission to join the 21st century, all of the Gigspanner Big Band albums are now available to buy as downloads/streaming for users of Bandcamp. Downloads are also available direct from the Gigspanner website (where we get to keep all the money!) gigspanner.bandcamp.com

Save hares, UK. Please share.

Damn. We had Salt Bae in today to make lunch and impress the head of the Civil Aviation Authority. It did not go well.

Fighting has broken out between India and Pakistan in the Leepa Valley in Kashmir. Heavy weaponry deployed.