The Pub Curmudgeon

Yesterday’s comments by the editor of the Good Pub Guide that Britain still had far too many “bad pubs” that were stuck in the 1980s and...

A point I’ve made before is that pubs can’t – and aren’t – seen in the same way as other businesses, because they are places in which people...

Three years ago I wrote about the new wave of super-premium ales that were appearing on the supermarket shelves. Since then, they have s...

This recently-spotted sign must really be one of the worst examples of officious pub nonsense I have ever encountered. In the past, you woul...

In the recent poll I ran on reasons deterring people from visiting pubs , “High Prices” came a strong second after the obvious front-runner....

H/t to Frank Davis for this letter recently published in the Blackburn, Darwen, and Hyndburn Citizen : Change your hearts or lose your i...

Interesting results (and a massive turnout) for my poll on reasons deterring people from visiting pubs. I created this as a response to vari...

There’s some possibly surprising news that the extended opening hours following the 2003 Licensing Act have actually led to a reduction in d...

This month marks the third anniversary of my Closed Pubs blog, during which time I have recorded nearly 450 closed pubs. The past decade o...

In the comments, Matthew Lawrenson recently asked , perfectly reasonably, whether there was anything that could be done to increase the amou...

There’s a specific school of writing about pubs that concentrates not so much on either beer or internal fittings, but on their place in Bri...

From time to time, you come across articles by non-drinkers claiming that drinking has become the norm in society, and that non-drinkers are...

It seems that wonders will never cease – the BBC has at last woken up to the disaster that has overtaken the British pub, and come up with a...

Despite all the evidence to the contrary, some people still refuse to accept that there is any link between the campaigns against tobacco an...

I recently posed the question as to whether or not pubs should offer table reservations for diners , an issue that provoked some lively di...