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...British reputation for reserve and the quietude of its country lanes. It’s getting harder these days to make such stereotypic claims about this increasingly multicultural country, where, people of every color and ethnicity are likely to cheer for David Beckham or Wayne Rooney at their local pub (provided their team is knocked out of competition first...
...colorful and poignant tale, but in Lycett's hands it goes on too long. The book would benefit from fewer pub crawls and more pointed analysis, especially of the poetry, on which Lycett is perfunctory. Thomas once said, "I hold a beast, an angel and a madman in me." Lycett gives us plenty of the beast and the madman. The angel is scarcely glimpsed. --By Christopher Porterfield
...meeting, the License Commission also approved a request by the Grafton Street Pub and Grille to extend its closing time from...
...lyrics; he's a switchblade-sharp social commentator for British kids numbed by strong lager, joints and junk food. Skinner is unfazed by the attention; as he sees off an El País reporter and moves tables for a change of scene in his local south London pub, he explains that this album has been in the bag for ages. "It's like doing your homework on the night you're given it. It's a beautiful thing." After a moment's reflection, he admits: "I never managed it at school...
...world of A Grand is a familiar one, populated by geezers: track-suited young men smoking skunk and watching telly, wandering from pub to kebab shop, filled with an anger as aimless as it is insistent. Yet Skinner's audience stretches far beyond those lads. American kids have taken him in like some exotic distant cousin, and one academic in Britain's Guardian even likened him to Dostoevsky and Pepys, while pondering that "the narrative is constructed round Christ's parable of the lost piece of silver." Skinner's reaction: "I don't read the Guardian." The gap between Skinner...