The Pub Curmudgeon

One academic has boldly put her head above the parapet of political correctness and pointed out what people have been saying for years, that...

Good news that the government are going to allow all pubs to open until 1 am on the Friday and Saturday of the Diamond Jubilee weekend, with...

I was in a pub earlier today where I was charged £3.01 for a pint of beer. Surely you would imagine someone in charge would look at that pri...

H M Revenue & Customs have released figures suggesting that a tenth of all beer sold in the UK is avoiding duty . Now, that seems like a...

I see today that the evil empire of Tesco have revived their highly attractive multibuy beer offer, albeit now at £6 for 4 rather than £5. I...

There’s been a lot of press coverage recently about Emma Harrison, whose company A4e has raked in millions from the government for securing...

Home brewing in the UK was exempted from beer duty in 1963 by the then Chancellor of the Exchequer Reginald Maudling. During the 1960s and 7...

Blogger have recently introduced a new word verification “captcha” for comments, which a lot of people have complained is very difficult to ...

Occasionally, I’ve heard whinges from antismokers that, on the three days a year they actually step out of the pub into the beer garden, the...

There’s an excellent piece here on Sp!ked by Rob Lyons demolishing the case for “local” food – and, by implication, beer: Let me state my ...

Budget day is a month from today, Wednesday 21 March. And, in the run-up period, we have had all the predictable calls from the usual suspec...

There’s some more of my deathless prose in February’s issue of Opening Times , in the write-up of the pub crawl of Didsbury that took place ...

It’s common to read CAMRA publications inveighing against the bad business practices of pubcos, and running campaigns to “Save the Pig &...

Here’s an absolutely brilliant piece on the “Pubs of Manchester” blog, evoking the pub world we have now pretty much entirely lost. And th...

There’s a particularly obnoxious article in today’s Independent from Steve Richards in which he argues that the government should use the ...