The Pub Curmudgeon

Recent pub visits have reacquainted me with two of my bêtes noires of irritating behaviour in pubs. First is the “bar prowler”, a regular w...

The prolonged holiday between Christmas and New Year always seems to tempt a few people out to visit pubs who might not normally do so, and ...

Here’s a very eloquent elegy on the decline of the British pub, written by the obituaries editor of The Economist . Funny how the elephant ...

Thanks to Dick Puddlecote for pointing out a refreshing antidote to all the politically correct, healthist miserablism we have to endure fo...

...when this case was originally reported, and now it seems I was right : A policeman who escaped a drink-drive ban by blaming a pub barma...

In recent years we’ve constantly been told that we’re experiencing an ever-rising tide of alcohol consumption, with all the attendant proble...

The various discussions in recent months about whether cask beer should aspire to being a “premium” product led me to wondering whether the ...

Last Friday in the pub was one of those classic “setting the world to rights” nights, and one of the subjects we got on to was pub closures....

...but you never know which half. I was reminded of this old saying when leafing through a copy of the Stockport Pub, Food and Music Guide ,...

There’s been a lot of talk recently about the rise of “craft keg”. However, despite the assertions of BrewDog, realistically it is not going...

Stockport Council have recently announced that, as a cost-saving measure, they are going to close all of their remaining ten public toilets ...

Welcome news that the House of Commons Transport Select Committee have come out against the cut in the drink-drive limit proposed by the No...

The Treasury have just published the results of their review of alcohol taxation . In general, this doesn’t recommend any major changes to t...

I was taken aback to see the headline in today’s Sunday Telegraph “Minimum price for alcohol” . But, on reading the article, it seems that ...

A while back I was taken to task in the comments on this post for ignoring the range of “hugely varied and interesting food” that is now av...