I stand to defend vertical drinking. Is a pub that doesn’t allow it a real pub at all? | Simon Jenkins
The time-honoured tradition of standing up with a drink, gossiping and putting the world to rights is under threat. If councillors ban it, we’ll all lose out It is unbelievable: unconscionable. Westminster Council is moving against “vertical drinking” in pubs , starting with Soho. It claims drinking standing up is noisy and disruptive. It makes pubs, the council says, boisterous places where…
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