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Either Farage drinks in exactly the same pub, with the same group of England fans for every match or he has decided to get involved in recycling:

And drinking Spanish beer (see the drip tray). What a traitor!

Madri is as Spanish as Francis Drake.

I believe he spelled it 'Francisco'.

Either Farage drinks in exactly the same pub, with the same group of England fans for every match or he has decided to get involved in recycling:

And drinking Spanish beer (see the drip tray). What a traitor!

Madri is as Spanish as Francis Drake.

I believe he spelled it 'Francisco'.

Madri is a top quality Spanish beer, known for its authentic Spanish flavour, brewed in the uk on
Licence

It’s the spirit of Madrid

Madri - A beer famous for being invented in Burton Upon Trent? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrí_Excepcional

Indeed - a complete and successful marketing confection. And rumoured to be Coors light with extra hops (although that is not certain). Hilariously (or at least I find it funny) the Aldi knock-off of Madri called “Grande,” and the red bottle label is replete with a Spanish looking chap in a hat, is actually brewed in Spain.

Beer is actually pretty simple. Choose your grain, malt it then extract the wort and brew with your choice of hops. Water can make a difference. You can tailor the inorganic salts in the water to match any water in the world (e.g. when Gales were bought by Fullers they switched production to Chiswick but with water to match Horndean.)

I guess it is simple - however, as an enthusiastic home brewer it often feels like a lot of cleaning until all of a sudden some brewing happens.

But like cooking - quality of ingredients matters, techniques matter and if you cut corners generally the output is worse (e.g. you can pressure ferment lager means so you can ferment at higher temps and get a quicker result, you can also throw in a load of chemicals to clean it up for packaging rather than letting it actually “lager” at a cold temp for ages). The lager I will open tonight was made at Christmas and kept cold until now.

2020s guide to making beer – get famous and await call from small brewery to stick your name on the label. See also wine, gin, perfume.

Either Farage drinks in exactly the same pub, with the same group of England fans for every match or he has decided to get involved in recycling:

And drinking Spanish beer (see the drip tray). What a traitor!

Madri is as Spanish as Francis Drake.

I believe he spelled it 'Francisco'.

Either Farage drinks in exactly the same pub, with the same group of England fans for every match or he has decided to get involved in recycling:

And drinking Spanish beer (see the drip tray). What a traitor!

Madri is as Spanish as Francis Drake.

I believe he spelled it 'Francisco'.

Madri is a top quality Spanish beer, known for its authentic Spanish flavour, brewed in the uk on
Licence

It’s the spirit of Madrid

Madri - A beer famous for being invented in Burton Upon Trent? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrí_Excepcional

Indeed - a complete and successful marketing confection. And rumoured to be Coors light with extra hops (although that is not certain). Hilariously (or at least I find it funny) the Aldi knock-off of Madri called “Grande,” and the red bottle label is replete with a Spanish looking chap in a hat, is actually brewed in Spain.

I accidentally had a pint once, as in there was nothing else left except other lagers I would never touch, and it duly duly joined that list.

I had a pint once. Glorious. As great a beer as Jamshed is a top quality wine

Thinking of getting a dozen to lie down

There is no beer that a licensed UK industrial brewer given the same ingredients could not ruin.

Either Farage drinks in exactly the same pub, with the same group of England fans for every match or he has decided to get involved in recycling:

And drinking Spanish beer (see the drip tray). What a traitor!

Madri is as Spanish as Francis Drake.

I believe he spelled it 'Francisco'.

Either Farage drinks in exactly the same pub, with the same group of England fans for every match or he has decided to get involved in recycling:

And drinking Spanish beer (see the drip tray). What a traitor!

Madri is as Spanish as Francis Drake.

I believe he spelled it 'Francisco'.

Madri is a top quality Spanish beer, known for its authentic Spanish flavour, brewed in the uk on
Licence

It’s the spirit of Madrid

Madri - A beer famous for being invented in Burton Upon Trent? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrí_Excepcional

Indeed - a complete and successful marketing confection. And rumoured to be Coors light with extra hops (although that is not certain). Hilariously (or at least I find it funny) the Aldi knock-off of Madri called “Grande,” and the red bottle label is replete with a Spanish looking chap in a hat, is actually brewed in Spain.

I accidentally had a pint once, as in there was nothing else left except other lagers I would never touch, and it duly duly joined that list.

The bastard who murdered little Preston has been given a full life sentence.

Shouldn't Reform and their friends be demanding white school teachers are vilified across the nation?

Or the banning of adoption by gay men?

That might be quite a likely demand from a hard of thinking politician I would have thought.

You’re politicising it, no one else

To be fair it was my suggestion of what Reform might say.

Okay

But that’s odd as you’re very much one of the rational people here. Deciding what Reform would say and condemning them for it is just odd.

FFS. My beef is not what Reform have said here, but what they have not said.

The bastard who murdered little Preston has been given a full life sentence.

Shouldn't Reform and their friends be demanding white school teachers are vilified across the nation?

Or the banning of adoption by gay men?

That might be quite a likely demand from a hard of thinking politician I would have thought.

You’re politicising it, no one else

To be fair it was my suggestion of what Reform might say.

Okay

But that’s odd as you’re very much one of the rational people here. Deciding what Reform would say and condemning them for it is just odd.

FFS. My beef is not what Reform have said here, but what they have not said.

Oh I think we all know what test Reform et al use when deciding which crimes to care about.

Off topic.
I read PB most days. It’s been ages since I have commented on PB. However:
@Luckyguy1983 recently commented that:
“Burnham's 'clean air zone' in Manchester is a black spot on his reputation.”
Can I ask @Luckyguy1983 what is wrong with trying to improve air quality?
Air pollution caused by vehicle emissions is a disaster for asthmatics and people with respiratory illness.
Does anyone remember Ella Adoo Kissi-Debrah?
Google summary. “The case of Ella Adoo Kissi-Debrah stands as a pivotal example of how vehicle pollution can lead to asthma-related deaths. Ella, a nine-year-old girl, tragically passed away due to asthma exacerbations caused by air pollution from road traffic. Her inquest revealed that air pollution, particularly from traffic emissions, was a significant contributory factor to her asthma and death.”
I am hugely in favour of low emission zones and attempts to improve air quality. (Wife and I have an EV.)
I have taken asthma medication for almost all of my life, but I don’t have the most serious type. I have only been hospitalised once and that was about 45 years ago.
According to google there are about four asthma deaths in the UK each day.

You have missed the point. Burnham caved on Manchester's clean air zone.

He has missed the point, and so have you.

The clean air zone has come up as a negative (trying to implement it, not caving on it, which shows wisdom if not courage), one of not very many, on the doorsteps of Makerfield. That prepares the ground for Burnham to be portrayed as on the side of green zealotry.

As for Moanrs post, it is dreadfully sad that the young girl died, but she died from asthma. If someone's asthmatic condition means that them being in an area of high road traffic aggravates their condition to a potentially lethal extent, their parents, assisted where possible by the State, should move them somewhere different. The whole city cannot be turned on its axis because of one person's health needs - that is absurd. It is an even more perverse version of locking everyone up to protect the old and unfit during Covid. And it happens for similar reason - giving national power to single interest campaigns and quangos, who can then introduce deeply damaging economic and social havoc on everyone to pursue their single issue goal with no consideration for the wider implications.

Incrementally increasing standards for the environment have been one of the great successes of the late 20th and earlier 21st century.

@LG83 is distraught that he was too late for his dream career as a coal mine canary.

Sadly for him electrification of transport means that improvements in air quality are inevitable

I hear he’s off to Moscow to enjoy the atmosphere.

With Russ Abbott ?

White supremacists with links to banned neo-Nazi groups are helping to fund Restore Britain.

Rupert Lowe’s party could hold the balance of power in Thursday’s Makerfield by-election by splitting the Right-wing vote with Reform UK, clearing the way for Labour’s Andy Burnham to win.

Some of Restore’s supporters are so openly racist that Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, the far-Right activist detained last week under counter-terrorism laws, has questioned whether the party is too extreme.

Yaxley-Lennon, who uses the alias Tommy Robinson, challenged Mr Lowe to ask whether black people would be allowed to stand as parliamentary candidates for the party, or whether their skin colour would rule them out. Robinson suggested they should be able to stand.

Among Restore’s recent supporters is Steve Laws, who campaigns for “total remigration” of all non-white people. He posted on social media that he had donated to the party.

Jared Taylor, an American banned from the UK because of his extreme racist views, has become a paid-up member.

Other neo-fascists who have paid to join Restore include Sam Melia, who was jailed in 2024 for stirring up racial hatred, Sam Wilkes, a Nazi apologist, and Simon Birkett, who is buying up land for the benefit of “the British people”.

Mr Laws, who has said he has “signed up and donated” to Restore Britain, describes himself as the founder of Remigration Now, which calls for the expulsion of every non-white and Jewish person from Britain.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/06/17/white-supremacists-fund-rupert-lowes-restore-party/

Is it reassuring, troubling, or just odd that Farage should start sounding like a wet liberal with a passion for the rule of law and a desire for peaceful integration?

As to the unfolding of the monsters of the sleep of reason, will the Vikings wanting to expel the Saxons get their first, or will the Anglians wanting to expel the Picts beat them to it?

I really like the phrase "monsters of the sleep of reason". If I knew what it meant I might steal it!

@OldKingCole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sleep_of_Reason_Produces_Monsters

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Either Farage drinks in exactly the same pub, with the same group of England fans for every match or he has decided to get involved in recycling:

And drinking Spanish beer (see the drip tray). What a traitor!

Madri is as Spanish as Francis Drake.

I believe he spelled it 'Francisco'.

Either Farage drinks in exactly the same pub, with the same group of England fans for every match or he has decided to get involved in recycling:

And drinking Spanish beer (see the drip tray). What a traitor!

Madri is as Spanish as Francis Drake.

I believe he spelled it 'Francisco'.

Madri is a top quality Spanish beer, known for its authentic Spanish flavour, brewed in the uk on
Licence

It’s the spirit of Madrid

Madri - A beer famous for being invented in Burton Upon Trent? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madrí_Excepcional

Indeed - a complete and successful marketing confection. And rumoured to be Coors light with extra hops (although that is not certain). Hilariously (or at least I find it funny) the Aldi knock-off of Madri called “Grande,” and the red bottle label is replete with a Spanish looking chap in a hat, is actually brewed in Spain.

Either Farage drinks in exactly the same pub, with the same group of England fans for every match or he has decided to get involved in recycling:

And drinking Spanish beer (see the drip tray). What a traitor!

Madri is as Spanish as Francis Drake.

I believe he spelled it 'Francisco'.

Either Farage drinks in exactly the same pub, with the same group of England fans for every match or he has decided to get involved in recycling:

And drinking Spanish beer (see the drip tray). What a traitor!

Madri is as Spanish as Francis Drake.

I believe he spelled it 'Francisco'.

Madri is a top quality Spanish beer, known for its authentic Spanish flavour, brewed in the uk on
Licence

It’s the spirit of Madrid

I can't believe that isn't satire, but in case... From Wikipedia

Madrí Excepcional is a British beer developed in Burton on Trent by Coors, the parent company of Carling, with some input from their Spanish brewery subsidiary in Toledo, La Sagra; it is manufactured in Tadcaster, UK. In 2024, it was the fourth most sold lager in the UK.

Sorry. I was being childish. It was meant as a joke