The Pub Curmudgeon

Well, at last we’ve got there. Forty-three months after the referendum, and ten months after it was supposed to happen, today we are fina...

Martin Taylor has drawn my attention to this brilliant skit making fun of people who take advantage of asking for tasters in pubs. The punch...

Regular readers of this blog will be well aware that I’ve not always seen eye-to-eye with beer writer Pete Brown. However, when he puts th...

Over the past few days, the pub closures ticker in the sidebar has passed the 20,000 mark. Now, I’m well aware of the limitations of this da...

Pellicle magazine has recently published an article entitled Pubs, Parenthood and Children at the Heart of the Community advocating a more...

To tie in with Dry January, the Morning Advertiser reports that one in four pub visits no longer involve consuming an alcoholic drink. My ...

For a number of years, we have seen the Dry January campaign run by the public health lobby, which aims to encourage people to abstain from ...

Yesterday’s Sunday Telegraph carried a feature article by beer writer Adrian Tierney-Jones on the reasons behind Samuel Smith’s perhaps unl...

You can just go in for a drink, but would you call it a pub? I recently linked to a Guardian editorial praising the British pub, whic...

Last week, I made the point that the lack of legislative action on the anti-drink agenda during the 2010s shouldn’t give any grounds for c...

The Guardian newspaper recently published an editorial praising pubs as the heart of the community . To be fair, it includes much to agree ...

Something that jumped out at me from my review of the past decade is just how little progress the anti-drink agenda has actually made in pr...

The fallow period between Christmas and New Year inevitably gives rise to various diversions, one of which is the making of lists. One of th...

Although some pedants would argue that it doesn’t actually happen until the end of next year, this month marks the end of what has proved to...

It’s now that time when people turn to reviewing the highs and lows of the year that is drawing to a close. So here are some of my thoughts....