The Pub Curmudgeon

Mention the world “charity” and people will automatically think of an organisation funded by public donations and existing to help the sick ...

A classic quotation here from Jonathan Neame, Chief Executive of Shepherd Neame: For other industries the government “reached for the chequ...

One of the recent initiatives promoted by CAMRA is LocAle , which encourages pub licensees to stock at least one locally-produced cask beer....

Pete Robinson is back with a pretty scathing attack on CAMRA over its stance on the smoking ban here in The Publican . At the time Mike Ben...

I recently ran a poll on which of Greater Manchester’s independent family brewers readers of the blog thought brewed the best beer. This has...

The Tories are reported to be launching a campaign to save the Great British pub . Well, good on them if they are, but it will be interestin...

Talk on other blogs of Good Beer Guide selection procedures and the merits of different pub guides made me think it might be worth resuscit...

I’ve said on several occasions recently how New Labour seems to be totally lacking in understanding of or sympathy for pubs. Pete Robinson c...

The Information Commissioner’s Office has criticised some local authorities in London such as Islington and Richmond for insisting on the in...

It was astonishing to learn that the minister responsible for regulating the licensed trade, Alan Campbell, couldn’t remember the last time ...

CAMRA has recently set up a web forum here . However, it has not been widely publicised, and so far has seen relatively little activity. It ...

Courtesy of the Southport Drinker , I’m told that Wetherspoon’s plan to mark the association of the family of a certain well-known German le...

It is well established in medical science that promiscuous sex significantly increases your chances of contracting a variety of diseases. Ye...

The latest intrusion of the government into people’s private lives is the plan to quiz jobseekers as to how much they drink . Surely this is...

“They’re selling Carlsberg at 30p a bottle at the supermarket down the road,” an aggrieved licensee complained to me. “How can I hope to com...