The Pub Curmudgeon

Interesting to see a couple of articles in the press debunking two widely-held but erroneous beliefs: Healthy people place biggest burden on...

There was an excellent article in the Telegraph recently in which Charles Moore took a very sober and sceptical look at the current hyster...

In February’s Opening Times column I commented on the increasing rarity of finding a cosy, traditional pub offering a welcome to all comer...

Yet another local pub - the Plough in Heaton Moor - has recently been refurbished and had all the remaining bench seating stripped out in fa...

This week’s Spectator features one of the most coruscating attacks on the smoking ban I’ve yet seen from the ever-outspoken Rod Liddle. Ma...

LibDem MP Greg Mulholland has been reported as seeking to require pubs and bars to offer wine in 125 ml glass sizes, as the widespread adop...

A couple of recent pub closures in the area between Altrincham and Warrington in North Cheshire have underlined the difficulties currently f...

It’s rare indeed nowadays for a new pub to open (as opposed to a café-bar) but one that has near me is the Penny Black in Cheadle Hulme, a p...

Well I never! Here’s another prize-winning piece of research from the Department of the Bleeding Obvious - men drink more than women. I...

A phrase that often crops up in older pub guides is “the casual drinker” - which I interpret as meaning a person, or a group of people, who ...

Some very pointed, but sadly all too true, comments here from Pete Robinson about the depressingly high number of pub closures taking place...

Interesting report here that 105 Yorkshire pubs have decided to ban the Prime Minister from their premises in protest against the effec...

It’s been widely reported today that Wetherspoon’s are applying a policy of allowing adults accompanying children to have a maximum of two a...

Here’s yet more evidence of the severe decline in the pub trade post smoking ban, with a report of sales being 7.3% down since July of this...

Some salutary words for the licensed trade here . As I've said before , the idea that food sales will be the saviour of pubs in the post...