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Schnappy schnapps

Forget the Nobel Prize. What about the Swedish drinking song championship?

Drying out the swalliers

Class Monitor No.1: Wetherspoons Man

Class Monitor No.1: Wetherspoons Man

The last drop

It’s goodbye to good old Riojas . . . and it’s goodbye from me, writes Roger Scruton

In place of strife

The British pub was once a mainstay of working-class morality

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Pale in comparison

Next to Burgundy, all other white wines are crap

A public nuisance

A public nuisance

Observations on boozing in public

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Divine intoxication

Is it OK to have a cocktail while reading the Quran

Southern comfort

Argentina holds the answer to America’s trouble with wine

Pretty in pink

Midsummer haymaking is the perfect prelude to a glass of rosé

More in Drink

Keep it claret

Sin and the apple

The profits of plonk

Everyday pleasures

Time, gentleman, please

The reds are revolting

Eastern promise

Say yep to Yapp

Not barmy about the army

Drinking in the culture

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

Pop art

The end of irony?

End of the  irony age

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Classical music

Alfred Schnittke

Alfred Schnittke Archive

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Jason Cowley

On Philip Roth

The Humbling

Slavoj Žižek

Lenin was right

“I am a Leninist. Lenin wasn’t afraid to dirty his hands. If you can get power, grab it”

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