Bristling Badger

A website about Buckfast 's source locality, Dartmoor, informs us that a popular Scottish phenomenon is the 'Buckie Commando'...

The Liberal Democrats, like the other parties, produce a standard format poster for their candidates. It's an orange or yellowy square o...

If you want a definitive answer or even any numbers on this one, sorry. Strangely, when I did the post about the carbon footprint of beer...

Does your dog bark or whine when you're not there? Chew the furniture? Your pet is not a bad dog. Your pet's behavior is the resul...

After that last post about 10:10 , a comment was left from Dunc who said I'm a craft brewer, and at least 10% of my domestic electric...

Last yuletide I did a piece about second-day drinking tactics, saying grasp the fact that you’re not going to eat properly any time soon, s...

I don't want this blog to turn into Monbiot Watch or anything, but he's said summat again that makes me go 'hang on'. He poi...

Issue 3 of the mid-90s drug zine Heads And Tales had an indispensable little feature called Ten Rules For Tripping. 1 - Cars can hurt you. 2...

Having passed on the recipes for assorted dirty pop, the ideal drink for the second-day munter, there’s a new one. Victorian literacy rates...

Last summer, in what may or may not have been called Operation Fish-Barrel, police were on the southbound M5 looking for cars going to Glast...

Here comes New Year's Eve, traditionally a night of going on a hell of a bender. If, like me, you periodically find yourself having be...

Anyone familiar with Brass Eye 's drugs episode, an especially the use of Cake, may get a sense of deja vu as life imitates art. If you...

Harry Hutton's blog, Chase Me Ladies I'm In The Cavalry , remains one of the funniest things I ever read. Usually - but not always -...

Starting in 1997, the Independent on Sunday ran a campaign to decriminalise cannabis that they promised would only end when it was successfu...

To make truly mad alcoholic drinks, you need to be really dedicated. The demands of modern capitalism mean profit takes precedence over all ...

As Paul Simon warned , 'taking downs to get off to sleep and ups to start you on your way, after a while they’ll change your style'....

Media reporting on the use of illegal drugs is always prone to comedy. However, I dislike the intentional comedy, low-grade punning headline...

First they came for the smokers, and I did not speak out because I was not a smoker. Then they came for the peanuts... Last Thursday The Ind...

Independent columnist Deborah Orr agrees that the proposed re-grading of cannabis back up to Class B is daft. She points to the supposed m...

As my friend Justin has pointed out , 'due to the alarming rise in humans partaking of ketamine, the black metal-enhancing drug which r...