The Pub Curmudgeon

The death of cash has often been foretold, but it still seems a very long way off happening. Much the same is true of print publications. ...

Last year, I reported on a poll showing a majority of people in favour of allowing pubs to have separate smoking rooms, under the title It w...

A long-standing restriction in the Republic of Ireland is that all pubs and off-licences are closed on Good Friday. Surely this is a relic o...

It’s an ironic fact of life that, the more pub hours have been liberalised, the more many pubs have chosen to open shorter and more irregula...

One of the reasons sometimes advanced in favour of the blanket smoking ban in pubs is that it’s the only realistic way to protect non-smokin...

One of the most significant changes brought about by the 2005 Licensing Act was making it much easier to open new bars, as there was no long...

Only a couple of days ago, I posted about the government’s proposed sugar tax and suggested that this concession would just be blood in t...

These are the results of my poll on cannabis legalisation, stemming from my earlier post . As you can see, there’s almost a two-thirds maj...

The Publican’s Morning Advertiser reports that older male customers visiting pubs, bars, cafes and restaurants still experience “covert or...

This week, George Osborne confounded many people’s expectations by introducing a new tax on sugary carbonated soft drinks in his Budget. Rat...

Over the years, I’ve occasionally touched on the issue of cannabis legalisation. In theory, this is an idea for which I have a considerable...

I’ve finally got round to closing and summarising my poll on the beers you would like to see in a pub with only one cask beer. The thinkin...

One of the most obvious changes that has taken place in pubs over the past couple of decades is the wholesale removal of etched, frosted and...

The well-known Bass red triangle was famously the first trademark ever registered, and it remains a distinctive beer symbol almost 150 years...

For years, we have heard various sections of the pub trade complaining about unfair competition from supermarkets. This always comes across ...