The Ivor Davies...

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

Why do you bother with pubs ?

Over priced alcohol

That prevents you from driving anywhere....with exceptions

Boring blokes sat around in groups talking cobblers or propping up the bar

Very few women

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

Where's a good left-leaning, intolerant, judgmental , insular pub you could go to ? Hmmmmm.

Chapter Arts Centre

[JamesWales]

Chapter Arts Centre

An excellent guardian readers drinking hole! Too expensive for the workers too so no fascists there to challenge their view. 🙏

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

An excellent guardian readers drinking hole! Too expensive for the workers too so no fascists there to challenge their view. 🙏

I don't go in there , it's shite

[JamesWales]

I don't go in there , it's shite

You would love it Sludge. Those Poshos can't decide whether they hate the Tories or Brexit more. A cracking debate!

[Robin Friday's Ghost]

I don't think the word essential could apply to any pub, although they are very important social spaces and very important to community wellbeing.

However, pubs aren't all about drinking 'decent beer', which everyone will define in their own way. They are about meeting friends, having a few drinks, some food, some company, even some warmth in some cases.

In that sense Wetherspoons are particularly important as they are nearly always the cheapest pub around, esp in some of the cities I mentioned earlier.

Let me rephrase that then. If you like drinking real ales then Spoons is a godsend in many towns around the country as the aren't any alternatives. In Cardiff that isn't the case.

[Mr Soul '68]

An excellent guardian readers drinking hole! Too expensive for the workers too so no fascists there to challenge their view. ��

You are right Chapter Arts is full of Snowflake Fascists. A dreadful place

[bobh]

Possible closure of any pub is a tragedy

[insider]

Where's a good left-leaning, intolerant, judgmental , insular pub you could go to ? Hmmmmm.

I'll have to get a bigger net.

[dandywarhol]

In a lot of ways its replaced old peoples
day centres. Especially the Abertillery one.Bingo in the afternoons.
They buy one cup of coffee etc. Refill it for free and go home.