Here we have proof that New Full Measure has influential readers. Pictured reading the last issue outside the Houses of Parliament is Leeds North West MP, Greg Mulholland. Greg is Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Save the Pub Group and also an Executive Member of the All Party Parliamentary Beer Group.

That’s an advertising slogan used by Carlsberg UK not that long ago to promote Tetley Bitter. You might remember it. The idea was that Tetley’s was an uncompromising northern pint; it should not be drunk by southern softies. It should be drunk by folk who own flat caps and own whippets. You get the idea.

By now it is well known that Carlsberg plan to close the Joshua Tetley brewery in Leeds some time before 2011 …