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More recently, however, Wetherspoon has become something seemingly antithetical to Britain’s pub tradition: political. The 2016 Brexit referendum transformed the pub chain into an unlikely ...
BRUSSELS – A small group of British citizens who oppose Brexit were in an Irish pub in Belgium's capital when they watched a vote on their country's future. The Britons drinking beer in Brussels ...
It was just after 11 on Friday morning, and Jonathan Bollhoefer was already at the pub. Bollhoefer ... screens blared with CNN’s coverage of the Brexit. But around him, it was mostly business ...
He quit his job at an energy company in October of last year in order to “fight Brexit full time.” He started a podcast called “Three Blokes in a Pub” and travels around the country and ...
Pubs are wonderful things, and many are today finding it hard, enduring a perfect storm of inflation, customers saving their money and Rachel Reeves’ looming National Insurance hike. The opening ...
The pub has stayed open late to show BBC broadcasts of the results of the Brexit and Scottish referendums, as well as U.K. election nights. It hosted a viewing party for the 50th-anniversary ...
Mr Viola says he quite likes the pub and replies “I would think so” when asked if he thought Brexit was a bad thing. Retired freight and passenger train driver Andy Rigby, 65, is sitting at a ...
THE Northern Powerhouse and Brexit were both hot topics at the latest instalment of Bradford Politics in the Pub. The leader of Labour-led Bradford Council, Councillor Susan Hinchcliffe and the ...
PETERBOROUGH, England (AP) — The flag of St. George, a dartboard and a plaque honoring British soldiers killed in World War II adorn the walls of the Hand and Heart, the only pub left in one of ...
And sure enough, it did. The Daily Express couldn’t resist the bait, running a headline: “New boss spends £350k turning Wetherspoons into perfect pub for Brexit haters.” “Before you even step inside ...
Plans to build five houses alongside a historic Herefordshire country pub are having to be changed, due in part to extra costs arising from Brexit. The grade II listed New Inn in St Owens Cross ...