The Pub Curmudgeon

On a Bank Holiday Monday, why not go for a spin in the car? By 1938 there were two million cars on the roads of Britain. And one thing those...

A few weeks ago I posted some sobering statistics showing that total on-trade beer volumes had fallen more than 40% since 1997, and weren’t...

Obviously the guardian of political correctness and received wisdom at the BBC had a day off and this article about the decline of the pub ...

When he was sacked as the government’s chief drugs adviser last year, Professor David Nutt was widely portrayed as someone who had had the t...

One of the benefits of Google Street View is that you can pull up an image of pretty much any pub, anywhere in the country. And, sad to say,...

Good news today - for once - that Transport Secretary Philip Hammond is apparently “minded” to reject the call in the North Review to reduce...

It pains me to write this, but last night, in one of my favourite pubs, I saw a couple walk away from the bar and out of the door because th...

Not entirely surprising news that Adnams’ Cellar & Kitchen chain is finding trading tough going . This is a bizarre project involving se...

There was an unusual request recently on the CAMRA forum from someone (whom I actually know from another forum) asking for any suggestions ...

Interesting report in the Daily Mirror (of all places) that an internal Home Office report has shown little support for the government’s a...

My local Hydes pub recently had Marble Manchester Bitter on as a guest beer, and it’s no exaggeration to say it was possibly the best pint o...

There's an interesting pair of graphs on Mark Wadsworth’s blog showing beer and wine consumption in Britain from 1961 to 2005. For some...

Hat-tip to The Southport Drinker for pointing out this poignant collection of photos by Chris Etchells on “the demise of the Great British...

One of the benefits of public expenditure cuts is the axe that has been taken to all those hectoring, patronising government advertisements....

Many people were hoping that the new coalition government might demonstrate a significantly less bullying and authoritarian approach to publ...