Danny Clare

Owner and founder of award-winning Kapital beer hall & multi award winning @twothirdsbeerco, a Bantams fan, below par guitarist, & German-speaking enthusiast.

[Danny Clare @twothirdsdan]

@JamieRaynor Perfectly articulated; delighted for the lad, good work by City, and hopefully we reap further rewards down the line. As fans I think we should be pleased to have been spectators for some of Metcalfe’s great performances last season.

[Rosie Duffield MP @RosieDuffield1]

Brilliant petition and campaign by @ChefTomKerridge - please sign and share. Doing lots of cross-party work on this as our hospitality industry is drowning and needs *urgent* action from @hmtreasury.
Reduce the highest VAT in EU please @RachelReevesMP.
https://t.co/rycz8v3b0H

[Danny Clare @twothirdsdan]

@KeithWildman Feckless at best, Keith. Will be interesting to see, if Mr Burnham ends up in a position of power, if he provides the support he has vocalised previously for our sector!

[Danny Clare @twothirdsdan]

@pub_that @Kate_Dearden Silence! 🙉

[Sacha Lord @Sacha_Lord]

Front page and this injustice is escalating across all media.

The Chancellors stealth tax could result in up to 30,000 Hospitality closures.

The Gov’t urgently need to review Business Rates.

[Matt Gubba @MattGubba]

Business rates are about to devastate the UK hospitality sector in 2026.

Take The Squirrels Inn in Northampton: its rateable value jumps from £22k to £86k in one go. Under the current 40% hospitality relief, that pub pays roughly £6.5k a year.

From 2026, the bill rises towards £33k+, a near 400% increase for a village pub just to exist.

The government’s own examples show a “typical��� pub facing a 66% rates hike once the 40% relief is cut and new multipliers apply.

That’s the mild end.

Analysts have found big-city hotels with rateable values rising 385%. Once those lose relief and hit the new high-value “super multiplier”, a hotel paying £150k today could face £1.1 million in 2026; a 600%+ increase on one P&L line.

Add wage rises, higher alcohol duty and soaring energy costs, and this isn’t reform; it’s a demolition charge under pubs, bars and hotels.

The result:

- More boarded-up locals
- Fewer independents, more corporate chains
- Higher prices for every pint, meal and room
- Owners quietly closing or moving capital abroad

If the government wants thriving high streets, tourism and night-time economies, it cannot keep treating hospitality like a bottomless cash machine.

You don’t save British pubs by taxing them to death.

[Allen Simpson @allen_m_simpson]

Just looking at rateable value changes on the widget.

Real life examples:

An Amazon warehouse - 6.4% increase

A hotel near London - 41% increase

A pub in Northampton - a 291% increase.

So much for rebalancing from online to community businesses.

@UKHofficial @beerandpub @BIIandBIIAB

[ßen @BCAFCBH]

The most ridiculous end to the most ridiculous season you can ever imagine.

The final kick, of the final game, 40 years since the Fire, in Bradford's Year of Culture.

90+7. BRADFORD CITY. PROMOTED.
WE FUCKING DID IT!!!!!! ❤️💛 #bcafc

[Jamie Raynor @JamieRaynor]

Graham Alexander. The manager that led Bradford City to their first automatic promotion in 26 years #bcafc @BBCWYS

[Bradford City AFC @officialbantams]

Stephen Darby Baby! ❤️💛

#BCAFC

[Bradford City AFC @officialbantams]

Alexander the Great. 🐐

#BCAFC

[Danny Clare @twothirdsdan]

@BBCWYS Predicting the future? 🤯😂

[Danny Clare @twothirdsdan]

@benstubbs @EdthePubMan Hi Ed, I would love to talk about this on the podcast with you; we were a “standard” neighbourhood bar prior to the pandemic, but have since become an award-winning table service/European style venue post-Covid and never looked back!

[Danny Clare @twothirdsdan]

A teary read & a wonderful tribute. @Jason_Mckeown your writing is so consistently excellent, even when covering the difficult topics 👏

[The Width of a Post @TheWidthofaPost]

Remembering 11 May 1985

#bcafc

https://t.co/5ImYpUSTb3

[Danny Clare @twothirdsdan]

@MerlinFDC4 WhatsApp is great, but we’re big advocates of not disturbing those who aren’t working that day, so tend to revert to using Deputy (which we use for rotas etc) meaning it’s less intrusive. Comms v. Important, but hard to perfect when everyone passes like ships in the night!

[Danny Clare @twothirdsdan]

@GaryUsher_ @pub_that Cheers, Chef.

Loving your work, give us a shout @twothirdsbeerco if you’re ever lucky enough to be in sunny Sheffield 🍻

[Danny Clare @twothirdsdan]

@pub_that Exactly this - remove as many “barriers” to entry as poss.

80% of the battle is “getting ‘em in”

People visit us for a good time, not to hear about our woes, so I think the positivity is important too. Not naivety, mind 😉.

[Danny Clare @twothirdsdan]

@pub_that Sadly not a prayer for us hospo folk; truth is imho there are so many other issues and vote winners further up the bus, as opposed to cutting tax on alcohol etc. Shame as it feels like it could be a brilliant “lever” for economic growth.

[Danny Clare @twothirdsdan]

@NickSimmonite @benstubbs Think we’ve got even the slightest chance of a mention in the budget? I hope so, but truly doubtful if I’m honest; a lot of other causes and many worthy cases ahead of us.