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Curmudgeon - Beer & Pubs Archive - 2016
INDEX
- January
- A Pub is for Life, Not Just for Christmas - it’s hard not to see publicly-funded abstinence campaigns as a direct attack on the licensed trade
- Selling off the Silver? - does a wave of disposals mean that the wheels have started to come off the Wetherspoon juggernaut?
- February
- Open All Hours? - longer and more flexible licensing hours have been a good thing for both pubgoers and public order
- Planning not Parsimony - planning rules are preventing micropubs offering decent toilet provision
- March
- Someone’s Gonna Have to Pay - the “National Living Wage” will have a disproportionate effect on pubs
- Cutting the Strings - paying charities from public funds to lobby the government makes no sense
- April
- It’s Real, Jim, But Not As We Know It - keg-conditioned beer may be great, but it’s not the same as cask
- May
- Care of the Community - if people truly value pubs, they may have to stump up to save them
- June
- Great Stuff this Bass - Draught Bass is a great survivor and a link to our brewing heritage
- July
- Out of Control - to claim that drinking in pubs is intrinsically better than at home is ill-informed special pleading
- August
- Hear, Hear! - contemporary pub designers ignore the needs of the deaf, and of people with other disabilities
- September
- Doing What it Says on the Tin - the clue to what CAMRA should concentrate on can be found in its name
- October
- Cash is King - the pub trade remains one of the prime strongholds of the cash economy
- Ring My Bell - if there are no staff at the bar, customers need to be able to summon them
- November
- Which Side Are You On? - many people who claim to stand up for pubs and beer are more puritan than libertarian
- December
- A Place Where No-One Knows Your Name - pubs need to respect customers’ desire for privacy, if that’s what they want
- Closed for You - increasingly limited and bizarre opening hours can’t do the pub trade any good
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