Everyday Drinking de Kingsley Amis

Amis laments the destruction wrought on the English pub. His apprenticeship as a drinks-man began with quiet conversations among smoke-blackened trophies, with drink as but one component in a profoundly English routine of social consolation. This consolation was arbitrarily destroyed during the Seventies by one-armed bandits, kitsch signs and the conversation-stopping noise of pop music. Kingsley blames the brewery chains for this violence against the very heart of English society. To the violence of the brewers, however, has been added that of the politicians, who have banned the activity - smoking - that brought people from their homes of an evening, and which both conserved and overcame their shyness.

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