Newsdesk: no, you can’t
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- There are many noble Scottish traditions – St Andrews Day, the Edinburgh Festival, for example, and it’s important not to forget drinking. Whether it’s three litres of cheap cider in a supermarket carpark or an expensive single malt in an upmarket bar, we’re much better at it north of the border. But the current Scottish Government – the Scottish Nationalist Party, no less – are set on introducing a flotilla of measures aimed at combating the nation’s, uh, complicated relationship with the bottle. Funnily enough, not everybody is impressed.
- Joining the entirety of Scotland in the problem-drinker club this week – members of the world’s orchestras. C’mon in boys, there’s beer for everyone!
- Bad news for anyone planning on releasing a whisky in 2009, as Whisky Magazine name their Icons of Whisky for 2009 while I try to include the words “whisky” and “2009″ as many times as I can in one sentence without it sounding weird
- Things the internet is already aware of: Gary Regan asks Obama can we haz metric? – Paul Clarke on moonshiners – Eric Felten on sibling rivalry in the world of liqueurs.
This entry was posted on Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009 at 8:27 pm. It is filed under Links, Newsdesk and tagged with drinking, health, Scotland, whisky, YouTube.
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Great post! lots of interesting reading..
Cheers!
T