The Ring is, I suppose, a theme pub of a sort. Situated on Blackfriars Road near the long-demolished first home of English boxing, the Blackfriars Ring, the place is a one-room shrine to old boxers, and one gets the impression that a good portion of […]

Amusing to see (17th January) a confirmed Northern toper of confirmed Northern beer dismiss anything as ‘froth’, given how much one hears from our friends in the North about the merits of having a quarter of your pint taken up by just tha[…]

RANDY NEWMAN – Short People
Is it just me but is Randy Newman’s baiting of short people not dissimilar to the kind of Nazi propaganda which was spread in the 1930’s against the Jews? Utterly foundless, logically flawed and just hate[…]

THINGS THAT ARE IMPOSSIBLE (But Pubs Expect us To Do): 4
Believe that any food served within has actually been prepared and cooked on the premises. Home cooked is a phrase often bandied about, but what it actually means is it was cooked in someone&#8[…]

What is this nonsense! REM and No Doubt to play at a celebration of Bono gig. Let me get this straight. This is not a gig for humanitarian causes, it is a gig to honour a humanitarian, in this case the old puffed up, pompous leather sofa of rock hims[…]

Big events I learnt last night that the Football Association was formed in 1863 in The Freemason’s Arms on Great Queen Street, near Covent Garden. And there’s a pub, just south of Fleet Street, that claims to be the place where the good-[…]