The good, the bad and the ugly of our pubs

The pub trade is reminiscent of one of those old Spaghetti Westerns – the Good, the Bad and the Ugly. We saw the ugly side last month when spokesmen for the big pub companies were grilled over their handling of the Pubs Code by parliament’s Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee. The code and a Pubs Adjudicator were created by the government in 2016 to oversee relations between the big national pubcos and their tenants. The code was necessary as the pubcos had s......