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Let's raise a glass to the end of Scotland's drinking-den culture



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Published Date: 17 March 2008
By LESLEY RIDDOCH
SCOTLAND'S pub culture has always been seriously habit-forming. In the drink-sodden 1990s a fellow hack and myself chummed departing Irish delegates to Glasgow Airport after a particularly "spirited" union conference.
We had spent most of it ensconced in the umbilical darkness of the now-defunct Granny Blacks, and after ten minutes' exposure to the overlit airport environment, my companion developed the bends. "Get me to a pub, now."

Twenty minutes later he ...



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  • Last Updated: 16 March 2008 9:03 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Lesley Riddoch
 
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MacAlba: The Coming Independence (c2007).,

17/03/2008 03:02:13
Scotland's drinking dens will always exist until we secure our long-awaited and well-deserved independence.

The prolific continuation of our drinking culture is a very sophisticated conspiracy of Westminster's to weaken our people, and further subvert our national integrity and formidability. Our liquor was never taxed exorbitantly, or even comparably to our European and Australasian counterparts under New Labour - or prior to the re-emergence of the Holyrood Parliamant. If not for the SNP, then we would still be have virtually no tax on our off-licence alcohol sales.

Just another reason why England and the union have to go!

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Alternative (High Octane) Fuel Head,

Edinburgh 17/03/2008 15:49:42
Would it be legal to invite people to come to a room on your property, then give them free home brew and allow them to smoke if they so wished?

I somehow think it would be OK.


 

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