The Pub Curmudgeon

The sacking of Professor David Nutt as Government chief drugs adviser was criticised by an unholy alliance of Guardianistas and Brown-bash...

At a time when scarcely a day goes by that we don’t hear of another soldier dying in Afghanistan, the insensitivity of Kent licensee Bernic...

It takes a special kind of genius to file for bankruptcy when the overall business sector in which you operate is seeing increased sales, b...

York is a major historic city with a thriving tourist trade, and as such you would expect it to have a good number of busy pubs. But it alw...

One of the few recent success stories in the pub dining market has been the rise of Whitbread’s Taybarns all-you-can eat concept, typicall...

There has been a bout of predictable hand-wringing in the media in response to this Manchester Evening News report about the “alcohol all...

Every Saturday, the Daily Telegraph Weekend section has an article about a featured pub. Those written by Adrian Tierney-Jones , as is toda...

A question mark has been raised over the Scottish government’s plans to introduce minimum alcohol pricing by a European court ruling that mi...

There was a rare piece of good news for licensees and pubgoers in the Irish Republic as Prime Minister Brian Cowan – the son of a County Off...

In contrast to the tendentious nonsense spouted the other week by Strathclyde chief constable Stephen House that you were less likely to ex...

Scarcely a day seems to go by at present without some self-appointed “expert” from the medical profession clamouring for new curbs on alcoho...

Despite all the hysteria in the media about “binge-drink Britain” and our “ever-growing” alcohol problems, the actual facts tell a completel...

Following his speech at the Tory Conference , I wrote to Chris Grayling to express my concern that his plans were likely to adversely affect...

Last night I watched the Channel 4 documentary called The Red Lion . This is the most common pub name in the UK and film-maker Sue Bourne tr...

This new book looks like essential reading: The nanny state has given way to a bully state in which politicians coerce the public into sub...