The Pub Curmudgeon

Over the past couple of weeks there has been a flurry of speculation about whether pubs would actually be allowed to reopen on July 4th and,...

There have been a number of reports that the government is planning to give the go-ahead for pubs to open outside drinking areas from 22 Ju...

Over the past eleven weeks of the lockdown, queuing, especially to get into supermarkets, has become an unwelcome fact of life for most of u...

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote how taking a whole population approach to the “war on obesity” could have many undesirable consequences . One...

Earlier this week, I blogged about a Twitter poll I was running about people’s attitude to returning to pubs post-lockedown . This has now f...

A concern that has been expressed by many in the trade is that, even when pubs are allowed to reopen, many of their previous customers may b...

Over the past couple of days, I’ve spotted a couple of eloquent and poignant blogposts about what we are currently missing through our pubs ...

In contrast to smoking, there has been a growing weight of evidence of a strong correlation between obesity and being at risk of dying from ...

With discussion about coronavirus now moving to talk of the programme for unwinding the lockdown, one idea that has been floated is to allow...

Although we in the United Kingdom are still awaiting any kind of official announcement, countries around the world are now publishing their ...

A month ago, although it seems far longer, I wrote: “I have had some thoughts on how the coronavirus crisis is likely to affect the pub and ...

Although it now seems only a distant memory, yesterday marked five weeks since pubs, bars and restaurants were instructed to close due to th...

The coronavirus lockdown has given encouragement to two of the less edifying aspects of the British character – the curtain-twitching love o...

I recently ran a poll on Twitter asking whether people were drinking more or less during the lockdown, despite being unable to visit pubs. T...

I’ve seen a couple of messages on Twitter urging people to buy beer directly from breweries rather than from supermarkets during the lockdow...