J Mark Dodds FRSA

IT COULD BE A PALACE FOR THE PEOPLE See my latest #AllForTheLoveOfPubs Substack About the cold, dead hand of corporate insousciance and #SavingBritainsPubs jmarkdodds.substack.com/p/the-black-...

Anyway, I know there is another world of Belgian beer out there - young, diverse, and progressive - but it does sometimes feel as if the old bastions are calcified beyond rescue. And then they'll mew about declining sales and closing pubs.

Two years feels like a long wait for a pub book with actual politics in it. Adding it to the list, though my local's beer garden is a much worse classroom than a proper book about it.

Wuthering Heights isn't a romance. Bookshops keep putting it on the Valentine's table every February, and I want to ask if they made it past the first chapter.

Halfway through PUBS FOR THE PEOPLE by Amit Singh and Sivamohan Valluvan. It’s up there among the best books about pubs I’ve read - its certainly the most interesting. Early recommendation BUY THIS BOOK: It's out October 20, 2026. Pre-order see link manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526194541/

It’s baaaack! Start your engines.

Pubs for the People book launch 📆 22nd October 📍Waterstones, Trafalgar Square In conversation with @petebrownbeer.bsky.social Come one, come all to discuss nationalism, pubs, the good life and more 🍻📚 www.waterstones.com/events/pubs-...

I don’t trust the mainstream media, but I feel like the primary alternate model, getting the news from the posts of a 14 year-old Romanian schizophrenic shitposter named “G00n3R the Swamp Pervert,” is not necessarily a superior alternative.

Cartoonist: Steve Jones

Why's this man still around? What's wrong with society that tolerates this insanity? Why's Trump still at liberty?

In 2021, UK income tax personal allowance frozen at £12,570, 26.6m paid income tax at the basic rate of 20%. 2026-27: 31.4m liable to pay income tax at 20%. In 2021, 6.47m pensioners paid income tax. 2026-27: 9.58m pensioners liable to income tax. Govt must relieve poverty. End stealth tax.

@boakandbailey.bsky.social In 2014 we corresponded about #GreatBritishPubcoScam but never had the conversation In 2017 you described my work exposing pubcos as “popular conspiracy theory” In 2025 I wrote about it www.themintmagazine.com/a-few-too-ma... In 2026 fancy having that conversation now?

Check out my new article written for @arguablymag.bsky.social 👇

In the 1960s/70s there was a big corporate push to replace local ales & diverse styles of beer in the UK w/ mass produced lagers & slop. In response, the Campaign for Real Ale, started by beer fans, has been one of the most successful consumer campaign ever. camra.org.uk/about/who-we...

If you beer you must buy this book

Oktoberfest time! A reminder that only two of the six breweries exclusively allowed to sell beer there are not owned by brewing conglomerates: Hofbräuhaus: State of Bavaria Augustiner: Independently owned Spaten, Löwenbräu: AB InBev Paulaner, Hacker-Pschorr: part of a group, 30% owned by Heineken

So. This happened last night. The first live national telly broadcast from the Fox and Goose. Sterling work from Hannah and Beth repping for the pub, and huge thanks to Jago for agreeing to be Joe Lycett's hostage for the evening. www.channel4.com/programmes/l...

It's on! Our collaboration with our friends at Nightjar Brew Co. Hebden Bridge. Whippet Good, a rather modern and rather delicious #Yorkshire bitter. Lovely colour too, fresh conker for reference.

This is how we party on Sunday night in Minneapolis

We’re pleased to spotlight an event from a friend of the Foundation. Join @amit-singh.bsky.social & Sivamohan Valluvan at Waterstones, Trafalgar Square on 22 October for the launch of Pubs for the People, a passionate defence of the English pub. Tickets: buff.ly/8vmF7Wy

"Amit Singh and Sivamohan Valluvan... [wage] battle against those who see the pub only as a poignant symbol of a bygone England... [taking] on private equity, yuppie gentrifiers and culture-war blowhards who use the pub as a prop for their rage-baiting patriotism."

Sivamohan Valluvan et Amit Singh - Pubs for the people The fight for the pint and the nation À paraître en octobre aux Manchester UP

#SocialScience of #Meritocracy with @barryseconomics.bsky.social The truth is the system works against those without class capital. "Be brilliant and wait" can't work for those without money youtu.be/O0HG7EimeAY?...

youtu.be/O0HG7EimeAY If you want educational understandings in how this country is rigged against the majority of its own people. Have a watch @barryseconomics.bsky.social His videos are brilliant & informative. Give a share—a like—a subscription or go top tier patreon if you can #SocialistSunday

I've been researching the idea of Unconditional Universal Basic Income since 2013. Here's a collection of findings I've compiled from various UBI experiments and studies of cash transfer programs around the world. This will be a VERY LONG and ongoing thread focused entirely on empirical evidence. 🧵

The amount of Amazon workers relying on SNAP and Medicaid has nearly tripled since 2020 — while Amazon’s annual profits soared by over 550%. It’s the same story everywhere: corporate profits are at record highs, while workers’ share of the economy is at a record low. We must unrig the system.

Steven Bartlett replied to my Diary of a CEO video. At half past midnight. Edited. I thought I was making a piss-take. Then I started reading the research, and the joke got considerably less funny. youtu.be/Dqh17U3tymU #DiaryOfACEO #StevenBartlett #Psychology #ParasocialRelationships

Jurassic Park isn't really a film about dinosaurs. It's about what happens when humans get very good at building something before getting very good at thinking about the consequences. That feels uncomfortably relevant to AI. youtu.be/RyOFDfpjR9U #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #BehaviouralEconomics

Talarico: "Corrupt politicians are profiting off a corrupt war and Texans are literally paying the price ... this war in Iran is a disaster. It is killing Americans, driving up the price of gas and diesel, it is wrecking our moral standing around the world. And it must end."

EXACTLY 👇 THIS.......

The minimum

If Dems don't do this, they will have failed us entirely.

What happens when the very things you're told will help you get ahead can actually work against you? In this second part of the meritocracy series, I look at the "hustle penalty" and the hidden costs of how you present yourself when you're trying to move up. #meritocracy youtu.be/O0HG7EimeAY

After pursuing a comedy career since I was 15, I know that talent and recognition aren't the same thing. This week's video starts with James Acaster answering one simple question and ends with one of psychology's most important ideas: survivorship bias. Hope you like it! youtu.be/CTTQqLFj_Ng

Why is immigration always the argument? This week's video looks at threat responses, social media algorithms, perception gaps and why you can't necessarily win an argument by throwing more facts at it. Maybe winning was never the point. youtu.be/_OWqzhwsWXM #Immigration #Psychology #Economics

@barryseconomics.bsky.social This strange thing happened on your video: youtu.be/O0HG7EimeAY?... "The Dark Side of Meritocracy: Why 'Hustling' is a Trap" Wondering if it was intentional or part of the dark side taking over our lives, it looked like odd censoring but moved around

The real Tragedy of the Titanic Wasn't The Iceberg. This week's video is what we get wrong about tragedies. It's a story about who gets killed, what power does to us, and how to change course so the when disaster hits - it doesn't need to be a tragedy. youtu.be/tO57SThgdoE

Maybe poverty doesn't reveal a person's motivation. Maybe it changes the conditions under which motivation is possible. youtu.be/JeRd91a14V8 #Economics #Psychology #Inequality

Peter Thiel is getting a very cold reception outside his new mansion in the exclusive Barrio Parque neighborhood in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Argentinians are chanting: “Out, out, Peter out.”

THEY GOT ME OVER A BARREL When I began a blog about pubs in 2004 I didn't know what to do with it. 2 years later I co-founded the Fair Pint Campaign which led to the 2016 Pubs Code coming into place Sign up to my Substack #AllForTheLoveOfPubs it's free jmarkdodds.substack.com/p/all-for-th...

‘I love it. It’s hope’: the mysterious self-willed wildflower meadow that seeded itself #Biodiversity #Nature #Regeneration #Rewilding www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Genuinely can't believe we're supposed to have a debate about whether DEI has reduced the quality of academic output whilst you have some of the critics writing entire papers on why women evolved to use a Dyson?

The good news is that people really love the audiobook version of Notorious. The even better news is that as of today, it's an absolute flipping bargain! www.audible.co.uk/pd/Notorious...

My "John Lennon" moment. Don't tell the Bible belt or I'll have to write a ballad about Yoko.

With each passing day, there's more and more fighting and bad blood among the parties of the Right. They are starting to hate each other more than they hate the Left.

£5k is nothing. Take their vehicles, take their homes. Fuck this petty fining of organised crime. Do it properly.

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