The new Deserter Pubcast is out. Now, is this Dirk or James?

Same 🙄

I’ve listened to quite a bit of Happy Mondays on music streaming platforms. But none of them has dared to offer me this #totp

No, that has been well-hidden away 😂

I’m going right off that United States of America.

Gypsy Woman (She's Homeless) (La Da Dee La Da Da) - Basement Boy Strip To The Bone Mix

Happy 35th birthday to a chord progression of our times and all the people I shared it with.

open.spotify.com/track/1SShxV...

A war foretold: how the CIA and MI6 got hold of Putin’s Ukraine plans and why nobody believed them Drawing on more than 100 interviews with senior intelligence officials and other insiders in multiple countries, this exclusive account details how the US and Britain uncovered Vladimir Putin’s plans ...

A wonderful bit of work.

Recommend sitting down with a pint (or two!) and treating yourself to some fine journalism.

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

To think he got up this morning, did a state pension fist pump, and then the doorbell rang.

They just a wanna
They just a wanna

Ghouls just wanna have fun

Drinks, darts, DJs and drag queens: the artwork that’s a fully-functioning pub – with the artist pulling pints Young Glasgow artist Trackie McLeod talks us through Utopia, the boozer he built from scratch where punters can sink a beer, throw darts at Thatcher or Trump – and win chocolate coins from one-armed b...

Please. And no.

This oversaturated Londoner says try opening a real pub. That’s where the art is.

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Britain Lost 14,000 Third Places. They Were Called Pubs. Is Your Local Next? How private equity reshaped the local and the postcode tool that shows the pubs most at risk.

My brother wanted a London pub crawl. The result? My new Substack post: "Britain Lost 14,000 Third Places. They were Called Pubs. Is Your Local Next?" How private equity reshaped the local, which pubs are most at risk and most importantly what to do about it.
open.substack.com/pub/laurenle...

😳 Though the Group of Death!

Pubs are for everyone. Don’t let Reform make them the political property of the boorish hard right | Jonathan Liew Farage and Anderson’s sums aren’t the only thing that doesn’t add up about their plan to save the great British pub, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Liew

Spot on.

A pint on the house when you’re next in the Shirker’s, @jonathanliew.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A wonderful piece of writing about the struggle to make writing pay and the reasons behind it.

Madeleine did a work-in-progress stand up show at the pub recently. I now realise it was probably one of 50 things she did that week.

We are honoured to have been nominated for Lewisham Area CAMRA Pub of the Year!

And in some very fine company, too. Check out the contenders here (but you have to be a member of CAMRA SE London branch to vote).

sel.camra.org.uk/lewisham-are...

🙌

If you like your podcasts frost-bitten, with pubs, pixies, potatoes and people dressed as plants, this one’s for you.

www.podfollow.com/deserter-pubcast

I think I must have misremembered it as being in the basement. Glad to know it’s still there.

Where is it, Dazzle? Was in the other night and couldn’t see it in the basement bar.

Cheers Patrick! We’re recording tomorrow so may not have time to pick them beforehand but will ask Rosie to stash.

a screenshot of text from a website. it reads: The History of the January 1 Birthday The tradition dates back to the early days of organized horse racing, long before electronic timing and online records. Race organizers needed a simple way to group horses by age since a horse’s age often determines what races they can enter. Instead of tracking every horse’s exact birth date (which would have been a logistical nightmare), they decided that all thoroughbreds would share one official birthday: January 1.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO HORSES! IT IS HORSE BIRTHDAY! HORSE!!!!!

Remembering Micky. God rest you, you lovely man.

Play Ja Ja Ding Dong!
#eurovision

Went up the hill and had a chat with Micky.

Possibly a little bit biased as don’t you own one of them?

Part 1 of my story The Publican, as published in Londonist.

To the person asking if there was a map of the pubs Gavin visits in the story - it’s in this piece!

Good to be able to jailbreak our first-born from warehouse incarceration!

Take the stress out of NYE. No advance planning required. No tickets to get in to a pub. Just drop in, hang out and meet new friends over some fine ales and ciders.

Go easy on me, Shirkmates!

📷: @vincerai.bsky.social & @mickeyonions.bsky.social