‘The scale of the nightmare in Gaza and the West Bank is vast. It is her job to somehow absorb and relay it to the rest of the world. That costs her profoundly — more than any American sanctions.’

I always enjoy the Saturday morning round-up. So I would hit the like button, but now I know that's cowardly I'd bettter repost!

Loving your work @davidjesudason.bsky.social !

Back at the ODG

Just seen THE TAND himself! @tandleman.bsky.social

I've got my own stage!

Liverpool is carnage on St Patrick's day.

Feels really weird watching this. Urban explorers going round the lab building at CampdenBRI Nutfield. Shame they didn't get to the brewery, I'd have have liked to see that. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSVu...

Still only on the introduction and amazing stuff in Martyn Cornell's Porter and Stout book. China's the world's biggest stout market!

#OtD 7 Mar 1921 the repression of the Kronstadt Rebellion against the Bolsheviks, demanding worker self-governance and freedom for socialist prisoners began. It was brutally crushed by the Red Army led by Trotsky and hundreds were executed stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1072...

Obituary for Des de Moor now online at the Guardian www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/m...

A reminder that there are young people in the UK who have been held in prison for up to two years without conviction for allegedly dismantling weapons of genocide. The government has been proven wrong on all accusations against them so far. Meanwhile: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

I knew I had seen a similar thing somewhere before Labour is a far right party

Charlotte's voice is the one I was waiting for on this. open.substack.com/pub/charlott...

"Equity For Punks" explained #BrewDog

I was right that brewdog were circling the drain back in October. edsbeer.blogspot.com/2025/10/time...

An abomination unto the lord at Cold Town House last night.

Sharp's brewery is being closed www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwal...

‘Morning Advertiser's 2023 Best Pub Brand/Concept and Best New Site’

Jennings in August? @robsterowski.bsky.social @dmonbeer.bsky.social www.breweryhistory.com/diary.htm

Cheers!

Has anyone looked to see if the legions of brewdog brown nosers are still busy on LinkedIn?

Thanks! I hadn't read it and I'm glad I did - it's great!

Yorkshire squares are stranger and rarer than you might think. edsbeer.blogspot.com/2026/02/no-i...

This daming clip from 2011 hasn't been online for years. Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer lying on Newsnight about the fact that the Corwn Prosecution Service colluded with police to secure dozens of wrongful convictions of activists targeted by #spycops 🧵 www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqGq...

Channel 4's 'Palestine Action, The Truth behind the ban' reveals that despite all the things the govt claimed & implied about PA (Iranian backed, violent, secret intel etc), the real reason they proscribed the group as terrorists was because PA was damaging property. Thats it.

Guinness CAN organise a piss up in a brewery: edsbeer.blogspot.com/2026/02/guin...

No Trump! No KKK! No fascist USA! dice.fm/event/k6n2r8...

I've just been told that driving sheep across London bridge is totally overrated.

Oh dear. The less/fewer nonsense has enter my life again. Less works perfectly fine so don't give me none of that crap.

Interesting: Craft beer has fibre stale - let's hear it for old favourites

Fortune 500 companies that have contracts with ICE: -Amazon -AT&T -Booz Allen Hamilton -Caci -Charter Communications -Comcast -Dell -Ecolab -FedEx -General Dynamics -L3Harris -Motorola -Thermo Fisher -UPS Know who profits from Trump's cruelty.

A visit to White Peak distillery: edsbeer.blogspot.com/2026/01/a-vi...

GOOD MORNING! Here's our regular round up of good writing about beer and pubs, which starts with 'retail groups' and ends with cask ale in New York. 🍺🍻 boakandbailey.com/2026/01/news...

Jubel: my part in their victory edsbeer.blogspot.com/2026/01/jube...

It’s on @bbcsounds.bsky.social here www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

A cracker from Lemmy!

I got to that demonstration www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... #SolidarityForever

Good morning. Here's our first news, nuggets and longreads round up of 2026, with notes on pub openings, beer in Rome, and East London. There's also an attempt to gather all the various Golden Pints entries that we noticed. boakandbailey.com/2026/01/news...

This should be interesting.

Golden Pint, texture like sun... edsbeer.blogspot.com/2025/12/gold...

I enjoyed the book on the marquee club. It's a bit of a list of famous bands that played there, but what a list! Look at this advert - Here & Now and Dumpy playing back to back! There's a good chance I got the Dumpy gig on the Saturday too.

Two Palestine Action-linked hunger strikers taken to hospital

That Moor Beer wrong'un has been ousted.

And reviews have been written by @thebeerfather.bsky.social @stanhieronymus.bsky.social and the sadly missed @thezythophile.bsky.social View the journal's archive here: bit.ly/3MCF2Z9

Got my mum's printer working on only the third attempt. Having a celebratory beer now.

Not impressed by the ancient Sumerian brewing water profile. Though it it was a few thousand years before Burtonisation.

Access for free articles on St Austell brewery; Armenian brewing in 18th century Poland; the Albion Brewery, San Francisco; Märzen and Oktoberfest beers; & the lagering cellars of the Kauffman Brewery, Cincinnati. bit.ly/48No9SU

The Anti Genocide Protestors on Hunger Strike in British prisons. Held without trial for months. #freethepalestine8 #hungerstrike

Do I fork out for sucker juice? I have been interested in Arctic Ale for a long time. But it's twenty five bleedin' quid for a half litre.