that Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government is considering a policy which would only allow pubs to reopen if they don't sell alcohol - an effort to stop the spread of coronavirus due to drunk people being less likely to follow social distancing rules.
The suggestion promptly caused an uproar among pub-starved Brits, who argued that a pub without alcohol is no longer a pub at all.
"Pubs with no alcohol? What is the point. Government control has gone way too far," protested Brexit icon and avid beer drinker Nigel Farage. Others compared a pub without alcohol to a fish and chip shop without chips, a clothing store without clothes, or a chemist without medicine.