The Pub Curmudgeon

Earlier this year, I wrote about the threat of the introduction of vaccine passports , especially as it might potentially affect the pub tra...

Over the recent Bank Holiday weekend, I was able to enjoy sitting outside pubs in the pleasant late Summer sunshine for two days in a row. T...

Following on from my trip to Chester , earlier this week I decided to broaden my horizons and have an afternoon trip to Wolverhampton. As I ...

Last week, the Manchester Evening News reported that the Railway pub in Portwood, Stockport, which had had a threat of closure hanging ove...

It has been reported that, to help achieve their target of achieving a “smoke-free Britain” by 2030, the government are looking at raising t...

In the Autumn of 2019 I spent £70 on a three-year Senior Railcard, but I was only able to use it for two trips out, to Shifnal and Burton-o...

This year sees CAMRA’s 50th anniversary, and many people have been keen to project their own present-day agenda back on to the reasons for t...

Last Monday at last saw the arrival of the delayed “Freedom Day”, when all formal Covid-related restrictions relating to pubs were lifted. H...

The trade are often keen to make the point that pubs act as a community hub for a wide cross-section of society and are far more than just c...

Last week saw the untimely death on his 67th birthday of David Thompson , the former chairman of Marston’s, which, it should be remembered, ...

There will have been a huge sigh of the relief in the hospitality industry when the Prime Minister announced last night that it was his inte...

When I was a child, my dad used to sing a fragment of a comic song from before the war that went “I’m going back to Imasas”. But it didn’t r...

While it had been well signalled in advance, the news yesterday that the end of lockdown restrictions was being postponed by a further fou...