Dini Shahini, who owns My Place Soho, an all-day café on Berwick Street, says: “We had the hottest bank holiday of the year and it was dead.
“Nobody wants to sit and eat inside, and we’re not allowed tables or chairs outside.”
Shahini is not the only business owner in Soho feeling suffocated by licensing restrictions ⤵️
https://t.co/6ios5zR9Ix
The French House
An imbibing institution.
Beer is served in half pints as a result of a drunken brawl between French sailors in 1921. Pint pots were flying and Gallic heads were cracked,
On April 1st, pints are reintroduced for one day only. Sailors have so far, behaved.
Soho
BREAKING: DENMARK REPEALS 1985 BAN ON NUCLEAR ENERGY
The vote came and went in a matter of moments, with a murmer of astonishment across the gathered representatives.
71 for, 34 against
Nuclear will now be explored by the Danish state.
Incredible to be here for this.
Speech in Britain is being restricted at an increasingly alarming rate. The number of arrests—more than 1,000 a month for online posts—shows this is no longer about a few rogue cases https://t.co/dH6NtL4egl
Britain's rise in worklessness has been five-year slow-motion disaster. Not far off a million more people are out of work and not looking, versus 2019.
I wrote a chunky piece on this for @TheEconomist, but wanted to draw out a few specific bits here (🧵)
https://t.co/lyV1ZZufIe
Neil, there is a logic flaw in your little aphorism that seems quite telling. Since you and I are part of the Universe, then we would also be indifferent and uncaring. Perhaps you forgot, Neil, that we are not superior to the Universe but merely a fraction of it. Nice day, indeed