By Chris Boffey

Within days of starting my first job as an indentured junior reporter, I signed up for the National Union of Journalists (NUJ), lured by the protection it offered and the prospect of a trip to a local brewery organised by the branch social secretary.

The tour lasted three hours, we got one pale ale in the tasting room and when we left the pubs were shut. At the next NUJ meeting it was duly recorded in the minutes that the members had passed “by unanimous decision that the honorary social secretary could not organise a piss up in a brewery”.

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Source: The Drum