Gin and Gospel Gazette

A newspaper; a printed sheet published periodically.

Dated British slang meaning drunk, specifically heavily intoxicated. The term is a direct derivation from gin, the spirit historically associated with cheap, mass public drunkenness in 18th- and 19th-century England — think Hogarth's Gin Lane. While largely obsolete in everyday speech today, it occasionally surfaces in historical fiction, period dramas, or used ironically by those fond of vintage slang.

(dated, slang) drunk.

(slang) A church.

A gospel shop is old-school slang for a church — the kind of irreverent nickname that suggests the speaker views organized religion with a slightly skeptical or at least irreverent eye. It frames religion as a business or storefront selling salvation, which gives the phrase a wry, working-class edge. You'd more likely hear it from a cynical narrator in a Victorian novel than a modern podcast, but it still has enough color to land well in the right context.