u/Explorer_of__History

Hello everyone! I need some help finding a gift and am wondering if you could help.

My co-worker is retiring this year. He has an in-home bar and brews his own beer, so it's safe to say that he loves his booze (in non-problematic way). He is also proud of his ancestory from the Appalchian Moutains, so I thought that a legally produced spirit that immitates moonshine would be a fitting gift.

However, I personally abstain from alcohol, so I know next to nothing about it. Are there any kinds of "moonshine" that you would recommend? Alternatively, are there any special kinds of alcohol that you think would make good gifts?

Hello everyone! I hope you're all doing well, especially those of you, who like me, chose to listen to Robert's recent series on Jimmy Saville. I think this series is a contender for the most difficult one to listen to and was certainly one of the hardest ones for Robert to write: when they guy who makes a podcast about evil people for living cries during research, you know shit is completely messed up.

Throughout this series, Robert talked abouth how Britain's libel laws have a chilling affect that discouraged publications from reporting Saville's crimes out of fear of lawsuits. If anyone wants a concrete demonstration of these laws, I'd recommend watching the 2016 film Denial, which is currently on Netflix. It's about the time when the infamous Holocaust denier David Irving tried to sue the American historian Deborah Lipstadt in the 1990s for calling him one in her book Denying the Holocaust.

The thing that stands out about Britain's libel laws is that the burden of proof is on the defendent. Unlike in many places, where it is up to a libel lawsuit's plantiff to prove that what the defendent said was libelous, in Britain, the plantiff is entitled to a clean reputation, so the defendent has to prove what they said wasn't libelous.