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-[…]

Like many people I firmly believe that music has a social responsibility. Where I and – say Bono – differ is in what that social responsibility is. The ironically challenged U2 lead singer may say that the role of pop music in this day a[…]

Publoggers Deadly Sins No. 1: Not drinking. So in the midst of a pre / post Xmas / New Year fug I decided to quit drinking for the month of January. Then I chickened out and plumped for 2 weeks taking it one day at a time. Then I realised this was to[…]

A note on architecture, since we are being all erudite and general today. There is a school of thought that says that pubs built in the sixties are bad. Especially if they were attached to an equally impoverished (architecture wise) housing estate. A[…]

And so – as Sarah notes below – surely the fact that Johnny Henshall is dating Lisa Steps – would make the world cry out FIX. Can we really be led to believe that Johnny (pro dancer that he is and ex-member of top tweny no marks Boo[…]

Welcome Johnny Shentall to Hear’Say! Or don’t cos he looks EVEN ORANGIER than Ricky Martin and Enreekie Iglesias (that’s what they call him in Scotland) sharing the Love That Dare Not Speak It’s Name! Urgent and Key Facts. Joh[…]