The Great Pub Debate

LATEST ARTICLES ( 34 )

• Swapping Rights for Shares

  In April Chancellor George Osborne’s backdoor deregulation of the labour market will come into effect. The new employment status of Employee Shareholder will... Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Pub Review: Nags Head

  The first time I visited the Nags Head in Islington was two years ago. I had already traipsed halfway across London in search of a pub showing the elusive... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• The Revolution and the Time Before

  It is two hundred and twenty years today since Louis XVI, King of France was executed at the guillotine in Paris, after being convicted for treason. Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• The C Word

  How can a word be so divisive? Only four letters long, the C word is isolating communities, its use is becoming more and more common and the impact more and mor... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2013 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• 10 Ideas for New Year Resolutions

  We, at the GPD HQ, are very excited about what 2013 has in store for us. Primarily because we are young and stupid, and therefore sure that there is nothing lif... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2012 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Friday Fun: Lookback at 2012

  Christmas is over and having spent a week off work the boredom is starting to set in and the family members are well and truly getting on your nerves. Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2012 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• What’s On: 28th December – 30th December

  We have been keeping quiet this week as we have been pretty busy being festive, cooking (and complaining about it) and spending money we don’t have in the sales. Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2012 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Respecting Your Right to Beliebe: But Not the Beliebs

  In the last two months I have had the same conversation four times with four different people and there seems to be a common misconception. Read more

  Posted on 24 December 2012 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Friday Fun

  In preparation for the manic weekend of last minute Christmas shopping, here is some Friday Fun to relieve some of the stress:- This is possibly one of the... Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2012 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• What’s On: 21st December – 23rd December

  Christmas is almost upon us and if you are one of the lucky people who has completed their gift buying (or not bothered getting any) then here’s some... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2012 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• A Christmas Experiment

  N.B. In lieu of the holidays we have enlisted our favourite food-scientist Dr Paterson (who is neither a doctor nor a scientist). Well done parents for doing... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2012 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• 10 Things You Don’t Know About Christmas

  It is Christmas party season and in case the conversation runs dry, we have ten facts and traditions to fill in awkward silences.1. Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2012 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Friday Fun

  London weather today has been rather miserable, so here is something to cheer you up:- Jack Shepherd provides us with some much love catertainment with 30 most... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2012 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• What’s On: 14th Dec – 16th Dec

  The official countdown to the big day is well and truly on its way. So what is in store for us for this mid-December weekend I hear you say. Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2012 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Britain on Immigration – Is It a Duck Or a Rabbit

  Theresa May’s key-note speech on immigration has left me rather bewildered. Britain’s immigration policy has continued to be rather confusing and sometimes quit... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2012 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Will Somebody Think of the Children

  Chances are that, unless you have lived under a rock, you would have heard about the ‘royal prank’ scandal. The scandal being the outrageous behaviour of the... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2012 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Education, Education, Education

  Like the war cry from a lost battle the New Labour mantra of education, education, education now rings hollow – Blair introduced tuition fees, hiked under... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2012 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Friday Fun

  Its Friday again, and here’s what the internet had to offer this week:- Dogs in New Zealand have been taught to drive.- A Brazilian inmate was too fat to... Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2012 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• The Gift of Not Giving

  I love Christmas more than most but it is beginning to border on preposterous. Not only are we now getting presents for every Tom, Dick and Harry but we are... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2012 DEBATE, SOCIETY

• Saying Goodbye to Internet Freedom

  Wherever you are, whatever field you will, no doubt, be constantly hearing about the changing “world of communication”, and “digital democracy”, and “social... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2012 DEBATE, SOCIETY