Am I getting this right? Under new Tier 2, up to a thousand people can gather indoors for a concert. Yet in restaurants, you can only mix in your ‘support bubble’. And you cannot have a drink at all in a pub or bar unless with a ‘substantial meal’? Please tell me I’m wrong
Tom Parker Bowles
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Let's Eat Meat. out. Out 21st May. Instagram tompbowles
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- The hospitality industry, one of the country’s most important sectors, is screwed and scapegoated once again. Despite restaurants,pubs and bars being responsible for a mere 2% of cases. Millions of jobs gone, thousands of businesses destroyed. Where’s the evidence? A disgrace
- A lovely piece by my father for @spectator …. Her Majesty’s enduring love of dogs and horses | The Spectator
- Seeing pictures of Mrs Hancock being hassled and harried. Not right. Ever
- Dear English restaurants and pubs (serving food) on Twitter. Please let me know if you have outdoor space and are hoping to reopen on 12th April, as am doing a round up. Thank you so much
- So Michael Gove, interviewed on @GMB, can’t define what a ‘substantial meal’ actually entails. Which obviously gives pubs a lot of leeway in their own sensible definition. Thanks, @piersmorgan and @susannareid100 for giving pubs in Tier 2 a little more of a chance of survival.
- Au revoir, then, Le Gavroche. One of London’s great, and most important, restaurants. Many happy hours spent down those stairs. And so much talent emerged from that kitchen. Both front and back of house. Chapeau, @michelrouxjr
- Just as we thought today could not get any more depressing. A travesty and a tragedy for British farming. They should be ashamed of themselves. Twats. Massive, massive twats.#Breaking MPs have voted to overturn a House of Lords amendment to the Agriculture Bill, which had sought to protect UK food standards in future trade deals, by 332 votes to 279 – majority 53
- Dear Terrorists, Fuck You. Yours in disdain, London.
- What a beautiful, beautiful piece. Damian Lewis on his wife Helen McCrory: ‘I’ve never known anyone able to enjoy life as much’ thetimes.co.uk/article/c21b66…
- They’ve screwed Northern hospitality. The Midlands and Bristol too. Despite evidence that restaurants and pubs are responsible for a mere 2 % of cases. Now it’s London’s turn. With no justification at all. At the most important time of the year. Idiotic. Catastrophic. Devastating
- The first interview in my new column for @YOUMagSocial , ‘My Life in Food m’ is with someone I know very well. My mother‘I could fill a book with my cooking disasters’ In this new series, famous food lovers talk to @tomparkerbowles about all things culinary. We begin with the woman who has fed Tom for most of his life – his mother Camilla mailplus.co.uk/edition/food/y…
- Jesus Christ. This whole @WilliamSitwell business is a disgrace. A brilliant editor, forced to resign (I assume) over a joke. Yes, he's a mate, but really. @waitrose have simply capitulated at the merest whiff of manufactured outrage. Pathetic.





