Everyone knew about my years of addiction, the dangers I had put myself in. The second time around, after 11 years sober, not even my husband knewI am finding it very hard to write about my return to drinking. This is...
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Read MoreOne in four late-night venues went out of business between 2020 and 2025. Those that remain are struggling to pull in customers. Maybe a night out in Birminghan will reveal whyThe £5 entry is a good start. So is the loud, lively...
Read MoreGemma Correll has suffered from anxiety and depression disorders since childhood, and at 16 she discovered a magical elixir that promised to make her feel better. In this extract from her new book, she shows how that promise was...
Read MoreGreen party byelection winner says ‘you can smell the alcohol when people are in between votes’UK politics live – latest updatesWhen Hannah Spencer spoke of her shock that in Westminster “you can smell the alcohol when people...
Read MoreFor most of his life, John Robins assumed he got more out of alcohol than it took from him. Now he knows it was the other way round• ‘I picked up the bottle of wine and drank straight out of it. I was seven’ Read an exclusive...
Read MoreIt sends us to sleep and wakes us in the night, excites us and depresses us, gives us confidence one moment, anxiety the next. How does this messy drug wield so much power?Whatever you think of alcohol, you have to admit that...
Read MoreBar owners say they struggle to dissuade people from forming a line as behavioural experts point to post-pandemic ‘new norms’“I’m not sure what else we can do to be honest,” Paul Loebenberg said, of the people lined up at his...
Read MoreIt’s just not cool to be wasted any more. But for a country shaped by booze, it does pose questions about what comes nextIt’s November 2024 and my puritanical American children are attending their first autumn fair at their new...
Read MoreMethanol, a cheap relative of ethanol, is entering the supply chain, causing thousands of deaths around the worldFor Bethany Clarke, poison tasted like nothing. There was no bitter aftertaste, no astringent sting at the back of...
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