please empty your brain below
Classic DG.
If you could clamber down from your high horse long enough, DG, there's actually a very good gin distillery and bar pretty much in your manor at Bow Wharf, just south of Vicky Park. Nice people, excellent drinks, and a rather atmospheric and sympathetic conversion of one of those old canal warehouses.
No, I have nothing to do with them other than a quaint desire to see local businesses do well. And I don't know if they serve Becks. Sorry.
A local distillery just getting started in north London.
Are these sort of puff pieces really any different from articles in newspapers and magazines in the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s etc., or when the BBC or whoever select a company to illustrate a story - tax on alcohol, Brexit or skill shortages, after all that bloke from Pimlico Plumbers seems to be the 'go to guy' if TV need an opinion about various business things, as is that guy from Timpson.
Perhaps in previous years the DGs of this world would merely have flung their newspaper across the room, or tut-tutted, but now they too have a media outlet to complain about stuff.
And a jolly good thing too! I have to confess I'm not sure what your point is that you're trying to make. Unless of course, you're just complaining.... :P
More power to your elbow DG.
http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/hogarth-gin-lane-t01799
Excellent read. You almost made me want to go until I remembered I don't like gin and am broke!
Which is the whole point of these pieces.
Simply that there are other outlets for opinions now - after all the 'establishment' media had little reason to rock the boat, yes they might publish something in the letters page, have a feedback type programme - or a pet 'gobby' columnist, but opinions that didn't 'fit in' struggled to be heard.
Think back to recent events on this blog - that guy with the 'T' shirt in Romford and Bob Dylan's 'paintings', would either have had wider publicity in the past, and then there are those racist incidents in public, or police shootings - filmed and stuck on YouTube, something 'normal' people couldn't do before (you couldn't really walk around with a camcorder all the time, but many have a smartphone now, or a dash cam).
In one sense the 'Global Village' is becoming just that - potentially everyone can know your business.
About 100 years later you get Cruickshank's Worship of Bacchus. http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/cruikshank-the-worship-of-bacchus-n00795
You may be unable to drink alcohol for other reasons than your religion : medical, alcoholic, or you just do not wish to pay good money to poison yourself.
Just caught up with DG today: please do not snipe at 'the guy from Timpson'. After a ghastly run-in with John Lewis, who having sold me the damned iPad in the first place, when it went wrong out of warranty, did not want to know at all, where did I get it fixed: Timpsons. Don't think of them as merely key cutters and shoe solers: that 'guy from Timpson' had a brainwave, offer a tablet repair service.
"Everyone loves hummus, right? It shouldn't be known just as something found in pots on the supermarket shelf, however, destined to linger in student fridges. Hummus is one of the greatest foodstuffs ever invented (let's not get into who did that) and when it's done right, it's deeply satisfying. Life-enhancing, even. Here's where to get the best in London."
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