The Ultimate Monopoly Pub Crawl

In the true spirit of visiting and reviewing every Pub Bar and Club in the country, the Monopoly Pub Crawl proves to be the best way to go about ticking off a few more london venues for Barblog. This is why for the second year running Barblog.co.uk is going to host […]

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Alcohol is Banned on London Underground

Until the election of Boris Johnson as London Mayor, I honestly believed that the laws on drinking alcohol were the same as drinking alcohol anywhere in Britain - drinking in public is illegal unless in private residence or on licensed premises. Any alcohol drunk on the tube was done discretely […]

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Wine Tasting World Record Today

In a ploy to pull hundreds of punters to Wetherspoons all across the country today, the cheap pub company are trying to “break a world record” by giving away free wine to taste for potentially hundreds of thousands of people. Personally I think this is a seriously cheap trick to pull […]

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Bars and the UK Economy (Perhaps its time to Panic)

The state of the global economy is in bad shape. This has had a massive knock-on effect to the UK Bar and Pub scene and the trend is likely to reshape the Bar and Pub industry all over the world, simply because the profit of property looks more […]

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Human Traffic in Clubs and Re-Entry

Leaving a club to go outside whether for a smoke, to meet with someone, to get more money out or to make a quick phone call is an issue which plagues club managers and door staff every waking day. As a clubber the worst thing you can do it leave […]

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Smoke Outside Clubs to Meet new people

Since the smoking ban was introduced in the UK in summer 2007 there has been a shift in socialising at clubs. Before the smoking ban it was difficult enough to have a conversation in a club with strangers, loud music and crowds do not make the best settings for […]

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Wetherspoons isn’t Smoking now

Wetherspoon’s shares fell by almost 20% this week in light of the fact that because of the smoking ban Wetherspoon’s were unable to sustain usual seasonal profit margins. Not a massive surprise you would think yet thousands of pounds have been wiped off of the value of the company simply on this […]

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One Week til the Smoking Ban

Who would have imagined it came round this fast. A few years ago this was but a thought on the mind of one or two politicians and Saturday 30th June 2007 smokers will be able to take their last lung-full’s of poised air and remember the good old days […]

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Supporting the UK Smoking ban

Its official - July 1st 2007 sees all the pubs in the country suffer the might of the fist of the law and succumb to a destiny of smoke free pubbing.
Unfortunately the query is of economic importance- with 30% of the population of the UK being smokers the government has come […]

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The Hangover Cure

I cannot pretend to be any kind of an expert on hangover cures but I have had my fill of hangovers (there can be no doubt about that, just read the rest of the blog). I have tried a lot of ways to put that thumping headache, churning stomach, ill, tired feeling in […]

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