Vigilant Hope Executive Director Jeremy Hardy serves a pour-over coffee at The Roastery. (Port City Daily photo/Alexandria Sands)
WILMINGTON â At Vigilant Hopeâs new coffee shop, The Roastery, the slogan goes âgood coffee for a good purpose.â Executive director Jeremy Hardy is dedicated to both those promises.
The Wilmington nonprofit has helped locals battling poverty for 10-plus years, largely with funds raised through its online coffee business. Now itâs opening a physical cafe on 16th Street with working baristas who will greatly benefit from the steady paycheck.
âWe wanted this to be known as a good craft coffee place that I think Wilmington needs more of, that we see a lot in like Raleigh or Charlotte,â he said. âJust some good, good coffee.â
A group called the Campaign For Common Sense revealed the result of an analysis of BBC comedy shows yesterday: last month, out of 141 comedians across 364 slots on such programmes as Have I Got News For You and Mock The Week, 74 per cent of the slots were occupied by comedians with publicly pronounced Left-leaning, anti-Brexit, or woke views .
This amazed me. I would not have expected the figure to be that low. If asked to guess, I would have suggested 90 per cent although this might reflect my own bias.
Or it might be because the one BBC comedy show (I use the term generously) that most intrudes on my viewing is something called The Mini Mash Report.