TheSwanYork
@theswanyork.bsky.social
Award-winning community-focused pub, situated just outside York's historic city walls. We also own local free houses The Slip Inn and Volunteer Arms. Independence = choice and quality for the people! ❤️🍻 Chair: @campaignforpubs.bsky.social
In our cellar right now, and on the bar soon! Here @theswanyork.bsky.social we're living proof that a Grade II listed heritage inn can offer a consistently great #craftbeer line up... As long as it's free of the dreaded corporate #beertie... As every #pub across the land should be! 🍻❤️💪
Apologies for any inconvenience, but we are in serious need of some external refreshment! Meanwhile, internal refreshment duties will of course continue as usual. 🍻😁
Wonderful #pub story. ❤️ The Vine, Pitshill, Stoke saved at auction by genuine pub lovers. Now reopened & restored as a fully #independent #freehouse. Rightly recognised with a CAMRA Heritage Award. 🍻🏆 www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-trent-news/stoke-trents-back-street-boozer-10753883
Stoke-on-Trent's back-street boozer of 'outstanding national importance'
It has been a labour of love for the new owners who saved the pub after it closed during the pandemic
stokesentinel.co.uk
Real concerns that the Government’s U-turn on the #BusinessRatesBetrayal will be a wholly inadequate sticking plaster. The unfair & dodgy revaluation MUST be scrapped or bills will still spiral. #Pubs need the promised genuine & PERMANENT reform of unfair & outdated #BusinessRates system.
It was great to catch up with Paul from @campaignforpubs.bsky.social and @jonnygarrett.bsky.social at the @theswanyork.bsky.social yesterday for few drinks and a wide ranging chat about pubs! #pubs
If you can spare 14 mins please listen to my chat with the splendid @nicklove.bsky.social on @jorvikradio.bsky.social We covered the #BusinessRatesBetrayal, what makes #pubs so special and why @campaignforpubs.bsky.social is different and so important. HNY! 🍻 2026 ❤️ pubs youtu.be/N6FJSw3La98
Pubs and Business Rates with Campaign for Pubs chair Paul Crossman, and Jorvik Radio's Nick Love.
YouTube video by Campaign for Pubs
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Nice article that underplays one crucial point. Both #pubs are entirely #independent & free from the clutches of pubcos. Traditional #pubs can really thrive when there's no greedy corporate landlord extracting excessive profit & restricting drinks to generic brands. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Meet the young pub landlords bringing traditional boozers back
The Highland Laddie in Leeds and Blind Jack's in Knaresborough have both won national awards.
bbc.co.uk
The #budget is coming so expect the global brewers & pubcos to ramp up their perennial self-serving nonsense about #beerduty. Don't be conned. 1p off duty won't save a single pub. It'll just make corporations richer and more powerful. Our new @campaignforpubs.bsky.social blog post explains all.
Campaign for Pubs@campaignforpubs.bsky.social · 10mo agoOur world famous #pubs need support from Govt in the form of lower rates/NI reduction/VAT cut. Cuts in #beerduty do NOT help pubs or #publicans but funnel MILLIONS of pounds to foreign brewers, offshore funds & #fatcat bosses💰 Read our #BeerDutyMyths blog ⬇️ campaignforpubs.org.uk/the-beer-dut...
Thanks @thecaterermag.bsky.social for requesting an opinion piece on last week's licensing reform furore. Our sector deserve better than mere spin when so many #pubs & #hospitality businesses are gripped in an existential crisis. @campaignforpubs.bsky.social www.thecaterer.com/indepth/why-...
Why the government’s attempt to change pub opening hours is just spin
Labour’s attempt to gain the popular vote doesn’t address the real issues, says Paul Crossman of Campaign for Pubs
thecaterer.com
Beautiful set from @modernnature.bsky.social tonight. York is so lucky to have both @thecrescentyork.bsky.social and @pleasepleaseyou.bsky.social ❤️
Rather than doing all the good things quietly and all the shitty things loudly, maybe Labour should shout about the good things it's doing and stop doing the shitty things altogether instead. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Labour to reintroduce grants axed by Tories for poorest university students
Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson said universities shouldn't 'just be for the wealthy few' as she vowed to take action before the end of the Parliament
mirror.co.uk
It’s Cask Ale Week! 18th to 28th September. Enjoy the UK’s national drink in the best place…the #pub! Support #caskale in #pubs, especially the UK’s many amazing independent breweries! #caskaleweek #realale #supportpubs #supportourpubs #backourbrewers
Why would a pubco seek to flog off 23 #pub freeholds along with good long term tenants? Surely not because these are fair Free of Tie leases which no longer allow the excessive profit extraction that underpins the entire over-leveraged tied pubco model..? savills.co.uk/insight-and-op…
A wonderful outcome for this gorgeous proper back street #pub. Once at chronic risk of loss, it seems The Vine, Pithill has ended up in truly safe hands. People still crave true #community locals, and #independent ownership is the absolute ideal. 🍻❤️👍 www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-o...
Traditional Stoke-on-Trent pub reopens for the first time since Covid
The Vine in Pittshill is open seven days a week
stokesentinel.co.uk
Truly wonderful photos of our pub and a lovely endorsement too. Thanks so much Richard!
richard mortimer@richardmortimer.bsky.social · last yr.@theswanyork.bsky.social An absolutely superb pub, top notch
Excellent and well-deserved swipe at the way the dead hand of corporatism consistently degrades even the most potentially special of pubs.
Michael Deakin@caskapital.bsky.social · last yr.New blog post! Yesterday, I visited Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem and came away feeling uneasy and actually quite sad. TLDR: Fuck Greene King. 8bitsandbobs.co.uk/2025/05/29/y...
Good blog by @totalcurtis.bsky.social here. Policy makers and the CMA cannot keep turning a blind eye to the anti-competitive state of the corporate-dominated #UK #beer and #pub market. @campaignforpubs.bsky.social geterbrewed.com/blog/2025/05/1…
🚨The UK beer and pub sector is in crisis, buckling under ever rising costs while still being brazenly hollowed out with full government consent by a toxic asset-sweating/stripping 🏴☠️ cartel of pubcos and global brewers. So it's good to see our main trade journal focusing on the big issues as ever...
Bravo @zoejardiniere.bsky.social It's truly shameful that we so rarely get to hear this kind of basic honesty, decency and sense in our public discourse these days, over the constant amplification of the easy-answer, inhumane nonsense churned out ad nauseum by divisive con artists.
Zoe Gardner@zoejardiniere.bsky.social · last yr.Mainstream radio presenters like Vanessa Feltz are perfectly happy to contribute, in their own small way, to the rise of the extreme far right. Her interview with me on LBC just now was chock full of lies. Calls herself a journalist. Really I wonder how they sleep at night.
One we missed when it was first published — Pubs’ roles in tackling loneliness by Glynn Davis beerinsider.com/pubs-roles-i...
Pubs’ roles in tackling loneliness - Beer Insider
When The Queen Victoria pub exploded during Eastenders’ 40th Anniversary recently its dire situation mirrored the wider difficulties faced by pubs across the nation. In England and Wales last year six...
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@privateeyenews.bsky.social is the ONLY news source to have been consistently right about the #GreatBritishPubcoScam over the years 🍻 Just as they were about the #PostOfficeScandal 📮✊ We REALLY need the rest of the media to wake up to the havoc being wrought on #pubs, #livelihoods & #communities ⚠️
There is just one important piece of info here, and it's that the team are quitting a pubco-owned pub & looking for a freehold instead. If only @dailymirrornews.bsky.social had delved into that, this article could have been so much more. @campaignforpubs.bsky.social www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrit...
Neil Morrissey's beloved pub faces closure as he quits business after 10 years
The Plume of Feathers, in Barlaston, has announced that MSW Pub Company - led by Neil Morrissey, Richard Slingsby and John Sykes - has decided not to renew its lease with Punch Pubs
mirror.co.uk
Huge honour to have featured in this episode of this beautiful series, along with @professorpub.bsky.social in The Swan. This entire series by @craftbeerchannel.bsky.social is a must-watch love letter to UK #cask ale and #pubs. All for a great cause too! Essential viewing. 🎥🍻 youtu.be/PyD8TmmRScY
British Pub Culture (Keep Cask Alive p11)
YouTube video by The Craft Beer Channel
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Loved being part of this series/episode and being able to talk about how important pubs are and their relationship with cask beer at @theswanyork.bsky.social! Brin the dog will be happy to have been featured too! #pubs
Craft Beer Channel@craftbeerchannel.bsky.social · last yr.KEEP CASK ALIVE AND PUBS OPEN! This week we're exploring how vital the pub is to British culture, digging into the remarkable moments in history that have played out there, while also looking at the role that cask ale plays in these sacred spaces. youtu.be/PyD8TmmRScY
With business rates relief ending soon, a new survey reveals that four in 10 hospitality operators don’t expect their businesses to survive the year beertoday.co.uk/2025/03/23/h... #hospitality #businessrates #survey @bionicbusiness.bsky.social
Many hospitality operators pessimistic about prospects - Beer Today
With business rates relief ending soon, a new survey reveals that four in 10 hospitality operators don't expect their businesses to survive the year
beertoday.co.uk
🍻 Wayne at YO1 Radio gave myself & MP @rachaelmaskell.bsky.social time for a proper in-depth chat about the ongoing decades-long corporate assault on #UKpubs. Things won't improve for #pubs or #independent #craft #brewers until Govt & @cmagovuk.bsky.social act. www.yo1radio.co.uk/podcasts1/as...
Wayne Chadwick with Rachel Maskell and Pub Owner Paul Crossman - ASK THE LEADERS
Over the past few years the pub industry has faced many obvious challenges such as the pandemic and increasing alchohol prices, but how do we solve this?
yo1radio.co.uk
Latest great #KeepCaskAlive film by @craftbeerchannel.bsky.social. 🍻 The wonderful symbiosis between Harveys and both Lewes FC and @officialbhafc.bsky.social just shows how much similar potential is routinely squandered in venues that can't see past ubiquitous global brands. youtu.be/bnogGqLTzX4
Keep Cask Cool (Keep Cask Alive p9)
YouTube video by The Craft Beer Channel
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Every #beer we recently received from Mallinsons has been absolutely superb. This Jester is no exception. An absolute cracker! All #pubs really should have fair access to wonderful local independent #beers like this. #keepcaskalive 🍻❤️
A handsome boy and a handsome beer, in a very handsome pub!
TheSwanYork@theswanyork.bsky.social · last yr.Here's Brad from @craftbeerchannel.bsky.social supping a pint of our very own Swan Session Blonde in the intro to Pt6 of their brilliant #KeepCaskAlive documentary series. 🍻 Fascinating & hugely worthwhile film project with a valuable @unesco.org goal. Check it out! 🎥 youtu.be/D8LiB6yvlx4?si…
