Bring back hanging? The Tories must be desperate
Venturing into out of the way pubs in the 1970s customers were sometimes confronted with petitions calling for the restoration of the death penalty. It was perhaps unfair to regard all pub landlords as dyed in the wool reactionaries, but given that their profession produced the highest number of alcoholics, ready access to the demon drink maybe turned many licensees into misanthropes back in the day. Albert Pierrepoint, the state’s official hangman, was a pub landlord. His boozer in Oldham was Help The Poor Struggler. Imagine though if the “bring back the rope” brigade manage to get a...