Here's more advice for the Stupid Party - if you want to continue your pretence that you're in touch with real people, tell Michael Gove to shut up. He says perfumes
are...no more likely to have been approvingly peer-reviewed in pharmacological journals than Tennent’s Special Brew.
There is, of course, no such drink as Tennent's Special Brew. Tennent's gut-rot is the misnamed Super. It's Carlsberg who make Special Brew, as immortalized here ("beer of the gods") and here. So Gove reminds us of the true face of the Stupid Party - not a clue about the real world.
They both used to be referred to simply as "electric soup".
Posted by: dearieme | November 22, 2006 at 04:42 PM
In one of his books on drinking (possibly Every Day Drinking), Kingsley Amis recommends mixing Special Brew half and half with Carlsberg Pilsner. I don't know if that's any kind of recommendation: as a teenager, I preferred Super.
Posted by: James Hamilton | November 22, 2006 at 04:50 PM
Tennet's does brew a Special ale - maybe that's where he got confused?
Posted by: indefatigathingummy | November 22, 2006 at 05:35 PM
Serious mistake not to get your beers right in Britain. Destroys credibility.
Posted by: james higham | November 22, 2006 at 06:08 PM
Serious mistake to describe either of the nasty drain-cleaners in question as "beer". Destroys taste-buds.
Posted by: Sam | November 22, 2006 at 07:48 PM
May I be the first to make a limp 'beer-review' pun (with a rider about double-blind-drunk control studies)?
Posted by: Tom Freeman | November 23, 2006 at 09:54 AM
"The next stop is Tennant's Super then this train is fast to Buckfast Abbey"
Posted by: Will Williams | November 23, 2006 at 10:20 AM
(I always misspell Tennent's. I used to deal wiht commercial leases and knew who was who by seeing who else would laugh
at landlords' concessions to tenants in new build properties, where there would be haggling over "tenant's extras")
Posted by: Will Williams | November 23, 2006 at 10:25 AM
in general, telling Michael Gove to shut up is pretty good advice for anyone at any time, except of course for those very occasional moments when Michael Gove isn't talking.
Posted by: dsquared | November 23, 2006 at 11:12 AM
Oh Michael Gove wasn't he the one who wrote a whole book about the middle east without being able to speak Arabic-
Sounds a great member of the Stupid party!
Posted by: Gracchi | November 23, 2006 at 02:56 PM
And the one who spent the run-up to the last general election publicising his own election campaign at the Thunderer's expense.
Posted by: Alex | November 23, 2006 at 03:04 PM