Alcohol
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Christmas 2021 alcohol guide: unique gift sets, presents and bottles
The Week Recommends Get into the festive spirit with tipples including Christmas Malt whisky and Brussels sprout gin and vodka
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The Week Unwrapped: pregnancy pains, electric bubble and killer spies
Speed Read Should doctors monitor mothers’s alcohol intake? Are electric cars an investment bubble? And should spies have a ‘licence to kill’?
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Museum exhibits whale testicle beer and prison toilet wine
Speed Read And other stories from the stranger side of life
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The best rums for summer 2020
The Week Recommends Banish those lockdown blues with a bottle of one of these luxurious spirits
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Instant Opinion: ‘We need Big Brother to beat this virus’
In Depth Your guide to the best columns and commentary on Monday 20 April
By The Week Staff Published
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Best drinks to buy this Christmas
The Week Recommends If getting a bottle of wine seems too easy, try gin, tequila, whisky or cream liqueur
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Instant Opinion: Proroguing Parliament ‘an affront to democracy’
In Depth Your guide to the best columns and commentary on Thursday 29 August
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One in ten hospital patients dependent on alcohol
Speed Read Findings suggest the country’s drink problem is far worse than had been assumed
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Does mixing drinks make a hangover worse?
In Depth New study debunks ‘beer before wine’ mantra
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Pub closures: how Britain’s publicans are fighting back
In Depth Patrick Frawley, founder and owner of the East London Pub Co., on the future of the great British pub
By Patrick Frawley Published
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NHS funding Christmas ‘drunk tanks’
Speed Read Extra measures to keep revellers out of A&E as ‘Mad Friday’ arrives
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Dozens of offences quashed after forensic manipulation
Speed Read More than 10,500 test results under review after ‘most serious breach of forensic science standards in living memory’, says police chief
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What’s to blame for the rise in alcohol-related deaths?
Speed Read As deaths from drink nears recession record, a demographic shift and cuts to public health funding are under the spotlight
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Mixed picture for UK’s troubled pub sector
Speed Read Employment has risen over past decade even though a quarter of pubs have shut over the same period
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