Phil Mellows Author

Kate Simon is a journalist with more than 35 years’ experience of working in national newspapers and magazines and was the Travel Editor of the Independent on Sunday from 2005 to 2012. She has spent more than 20 years sampling hundreds of tourism experiences around the world, including hotels, bars and restaurants and visitor attractions, assessing them from a traveller’s point of view. She writes about travel for the national press, including the Telegraph, The Guardian, and The I. Phil Mellows is a freelance journalist who has written about beer and pubs for industry and consumer titles for more than 35 years. He has been a judge for The Publican Awards, and later the Great British Pub Awards, since 1998. As a journalist for the Brewery Manual he has closely followed the dramatic developments in the UK beer market during the past decade. His Politics of Drinking blog helps satisfy his obsession with alcohol policy and he has lately become a regular columnist for the hospitality industry newsletter Propel.