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Wetherspoon boss warns over price hikes after Budget tax rises

Tim Martin, Wetherspoon’s chairman, said he believes ‘all hospitality businesses’ are planning to pass on higher costs through price hikes.

Evening Standard

Michael O’Leary questions Britain's 5 a.m. airport drinking culture

Ryanair boss O'Leary says airport pubs are to blame for rising air rage on Ryanair flights over the summer.

Fortune

Wetherspoon’s boss calls academics’ smaller beer glass proposal ‘slightly daft’

Tim Martin criticises schooner suggestion and urges UK government not to restrict pub licensing hours

The Guardian - UK

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Wetherspoon boss hits out at plans to use two-third pint glasses

The pub-chain founder said the proposal was ‘slightly daft’

The Independent UK

Michael O'Leary calls Wetherspoons chief’s bluff with 2-drink Ryanair limit pledge

Michael O'Leary challenged pub landlords like Wetherspoons' Tim Martin to bring in a two-drink limit.

Fortune

Why is Michael O'Leary telling Nats to replace its chief with 'someone competent?'

O'Leary blasted Nats chief Martin Rolfe after London Gatwick airport was hit with hundreds of delays on Sunday.

Fortune

Tim Martin and Michael O’Leary should step outside to settle their differences

Brief letters: Airport drinking | Wild west budgets | Mothers’ milk stout | Bright vegetables | Nominative determinism

The Guardian - UK

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Wetherspoon boss attacks Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary over calls for 2-drink limit

Founder Tim Martin defended Wetherspoon, which has pubs in airports across the U.K., after Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary called for a drinking cap.

Fortune

Wetherspoons boss hits back at Ryanair’s call for pre-flight drink limits

Sir Tim Martin said the pub chain has received ‘no complaints’ from the airport authorities

The Independent UK

Tim Martin of Wetherspoon’s: ‘For a while I was hated based on false information’

Britain’s most famous and most outspoken pub landlord is not afraid of controversy. But even he was shaken by the rough ride he got over Covid furloughs

The Guardian - UK

Wetherspoon’s boss Tim Martin praises economic ‘pedigree’ of Rachel Reeves

Brexit supporter calls for new chancellor to ‘rectify tax inequality’ in hospitality industry

The Guardian - UK

Wetherspoons to sell off more pubs despite sales rise

A further 10 trading pubs are either on the market or under offer

The Independent UK

Attorney who beat Trump twice in court starts boutique firm

Roberta Kaplan, the veteran trial lawyer who represented New York writer E Jean Carroll in her landmark lawsuits against Donald Trump, is leaving the firm she founded seven years ago to start a new outfit with a trio of close friends.

The Times of India

OPINION - They say Wetherspoons is for the chattering classes like me now — and they're right

This week, Sir Tim Martin declared the return of the Great British Pub after years of gloom.

Evening Standard

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Pubs boom in post pandemic outbreak of 'breakdancing' says Wetherspoon's boss

Guinness in fashion among younger drinkers

WEKU

Climate activist who defaced Edgar Degas sculpture exhibit sentenced

A federal judge sentenced Joanna Smith to 60 days in prison for smearing paint on the case surrounding Edgar Degas' Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen at the National Gallery of Art.

Evening Standard

Are you ready to do business? London’s ultimate networking event SME XPO is back

On April 23 and 24 SME XPO will help the capital’s start-ups and scale-ups to soar. Lucy Tobin reveals why attending is a smart investment

The Canberra Times

Bay too busy? Head the other way and hit this gem instead

The town of 7000 gets a lot of love from Canberrans who visit.

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The Independent UK

Voices: Independent readers discuss how Wetherspoons impacts high streets

Have your say: Readers were divided on the high street staple and while some said they’d never set foot in a Spoons again others eagerly listed off the pros of the chain pub

The Independent UK

Voices: Is Wetherspoons the best or worst thing that happened to the pub scene? Join The Independent Debate

With founder Tim Martin receiving a knighthood in the King’s New Year honours we want to know whether you think Spoons is a blessing or a curse to our high streets

The Guardian - UK

You don’t have to agree with the man to like his Wetherspoon pubs

Letters: Tim Martin’s knighthood is reviewed by Peter Walker and David Head

The Independent UK

Booze, Brexit and bad hair: how Wetherspoons became the most divisive establishment in Britain

The British high street has for years been dominated by a chain of cheap-and-cheerful pubs boasting straightforward food, inexpensive pints and mad carpets. Oh, and political propaganda. As Spoons founder Tim Martin is granted a knighthood, Katie Rosseinsky dives into a polarising brand that we can never seem to agree…

The Guardian - UK

Don’t rise to the Brexit bait – Wetherspoon’s boss deserves his gong

Tim Martin’s lengthy shift in service of the UK hospitality industry is hard to match

The Independent UK

Row grows over Liz Truss ‘lettuce list’ honours for cronies

Former PM’s ‘shameless’ move compared to Harold Wilson’s ‘lavender list’ scandal – as Jacob Rees-Mogg makes desperate defence of ally

The Independent UK

Tories accused of cronyism as seven donors handed New Year Honours

Knighthoods for financial backers who gave party more than £5m

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