The Pub Curmudgeon

In an intensive campaign during June, Gwent police breath-tested no less than 20,772 motorists , of whom a mere 124, or 0.6%, gave positive ...

I recently came across this blog of pub reviews in Cheshire, which sadly does not appear to have been updated for over a year. The review o...

You certainly have to hand it to the owners of BrewDog for having a knack for simultaneously getting publicity for themselves and winding up...

There’s an impassioned piece by Simon Heffer in today’s Sunday Telegraph entitled The soul of England lives in the public house . While I a...

42-year-old RAF squadron leader Mark Giles has been prevented from buying red wine at his local Sainsbury’s because he had his 17-year-old ...

It is likely that over the coming years a major battleground of the anti-alcohol campaign will be potential restrictions on alcohol advertis...

President Obama has come in for a lot of criticism for appointing a visibly overweight woman , Dr Regina Benjamin, to the post of US Surgeon...

Interesting news that InBev are considering selling off the Tennent’s beer brands and the associated Wellpark Brewery in Glasgow. They want...

Depressing, although scarcely surprising, news today from the British Beer & Pub Association that the rate of pub closures has now reach...

Forty-five major drinks companies are planning to spend £100 million on a major publicity drive called The Campaign for Smarter Drinking in...

One argument often advanced in favour of the smoking ban was that the licensed trade dragged its feet in providing non-smoking areas. Now, ...

In the local this lunchtime, and there was a kid of about five years old busy playing on a hand-held games machine, with all the associated ...

You might have imagined that a flapjack was a fairly innocent item of oat-based confectionery, but apparently it is such a toxic substance t...

I’ve recently been following an interesting debate on a web forum (unfortunately hidden behind a registration wall) on the subject of cannab...

“We should stick to what we do best: steak & chips and scampi & chips, carveries and home-cooked Sunday lunches. And we should leave...