Beer Compurgation

  Back in March this year Heineken pulled an advert for their new low calorie beer. The advert showed a beer sliding past a number of black people before stopping in front of a lighter skinned person, with the tagline “Sometimes lighter is better.” It was pulled after numerous complaints, including one from Chance the Rapper, about the unquestionable racist tone to the advert. At around the same time Brewdog was attempting to address the gender pay gap situation with their Pink IPA take on Punk IPA. The idea was widely panned; the premise seemingly in the right direction but the execution poor. In a society of personal opinion I know which one I see as the more derisory, yet the scorn from those that I choose to follow on various social media platforms was aimed at the latter advertising campaign. Indeed it is still being discussed five months later as a reason to boycott the brand. I’ve not seen anything said of Heineken’s pulled advertisement since March. ...

  Courtesy of https://www.freepik.com There are two teams in Manchester. The continuous public house prattle debates this statement. Others would have you believe that there may be only one team in Manchester, though the colour of their strip isn’t clear. As a fan of a team over t’hill there probably is one team in Manchester and another in Salford. It doesn’t matter really, but still we have the sufferable banal discussion as to who is the most successful and who deserves to be so. For those not following, Manchester’s two major football teams are Manchester United and Manchester City. Manchester United enjoyed an extended period of success at a time when the company Sky started to pump excessive amounts of money into the sport, with the more successful teams pocketing the most money making them one of the richest football teams on the planet. Mancheter City were in a much less successful spell as a team until the second of two large money takeovers le...