The Pub Curmudgeon

Here’s a must-read article by US addiction export Stanton Peele entitled The Truth We Won’t Admit: Drinking Is Healthy , making the point – ...

I was recently highly critical of Robinson’s refurbishment of the Farmer’s Arms in Poynton, with its fibreglass cow and bucket urinals. I...

I’ve often referred semi-jokingly on here to “bangs per buck” as a factor in buying alcoholic drinks, and I recently mentioned that one of t...

I was recently going through my late mother’s effects* and came across this typed menu from the Old Vicarage Hotel at Stretton in Cheshire. ...

I was recently critical of a report by a Parliamentary committee calling for more prominent and graphic health warnings on alcoholic drinks...

I’ve linked to them in the comments, but I thought it would be worth posting another couple of pictures of the interior design scheme at the...

Going back forty years or so, Robinson’s brewery seemed to have been afflicted by a virus for drastic, then-trendy pub refurbishments. These...

Over the years, on several occasions I’ve mentioned the lively, traditional pub atmosphere that still prevails in many Sam Smith’s pubs, in ...

I was recently in a pub in north-east Derbyshire, and next to me were a couple of old boys who were talking quite knowledgeably about the ol...

Regular commenter “py” recently posted this link to a collection of students’ thoughts on “traditional pubs”. A lot of the comments are alo...

Given all the discussion at present about pubs and the planning system, I thought it would be worth looking into the subject in a bit more d...

Looks like someone's been reading this blog... Without a vibrant public sphere, what need is there for the public house? In the eyes...

Over the weekend, the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Alcohol Misuse (which is basically a self-appointed collection of nanny staters wit...

It’s depressingly common to encounter the narrative that the pub closures of the past decade or so have been largely due to badly-managed, s...

It’s the middle of August, so once again I need to start checking the football fixtures before venturing out to the pub at weekend lunchtime...