Alcohol products have experienced a spike in sales during lockdown, rising by over a third (36%) according to data compiled by Just Eat and City Pantry. All regions across Britain experienced this spike in alcohol […]
Drinking Culture at the University of Leeds: a Quest for Moderation
The first thing I learnt at university was that anything could be used as a mixer. Hold your Ribena’s close, my friends: my sweet squash was taken as a token gift to another flat’s pre’s […]
An Outside Perspective of British Drinking Culture
When I arrived in Leeds from my native Italy in September, I prepared myself for Brit drinking culture through binge-watching all of the comedy series Peepshow. Thanks to that show, I was aware that British […]
Review: Louis Theroux’s Drinking to Oblivion
Drinking culture has become something that enshrines Britain and the way us Brits are seen across the globe. Alcoholism itself is something covered in stigma, and a problem which most of us would merely turn […]
Features | Alcohol awareness: unity and units
Awareness of alcohol is more than just thinking about having a little less to drink on a weekly basis. Thousands of young people’s lives are ruined every day by alcoholism both directly and indirectly. It’s […]
Cultured Alcoholism: Withnail and I
With a salute to cult-cinema, Ben Meagher absorbs the alcohol fumes seeping from his TV set and asks: what can we learn from the greatest alcoholics known to mankind? Awakening in a cesspit of drool […]