By Tom Swarbrick

My show has long been the unofficial home of the pub, and for good reason.

There is simply nowhere else in British life quite like it. A pub doesn’t care who you are, what you’re wearing or how much you earn. It is the great egalitarian space where world-changing ideas have been born, where people have sat in quiet contemplation, or where things have got a bit punchier.

It’s where memories are made and, quite often, forgotten the next morning.

But affection alone doesn’t keep a business alive. And no business has a divine right to survive - unless, apparently, you’re a very large bank. And over the past few years, pubs have been up against it from all........

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