It allows you to behave in your least wise way - spend too much money, drink too much, eat too much, snog somebody unsuitable, photocopy your bum at the office party, all the usual stuff.

Colleagues had a hilarious beer-drinking really game for their office party. Footage shows the two teams lined up and rushing to the table where there was a row of drinks in Bohol, the Philippines on1 ...

Riku Kitamura remembers his first "drinking party" as a new graduate in Japan. The 28-year-old worked for a market research firm and the team would regularly socialise over drinks in the evening.

By Elizabeth Angell It doesn’t matter why you’ve chosen not to drink this holiday season ... Experts say that small talk, the much maligned fuel of office holiday parties and “I haven ...