AN OLD HAUNT IN GHOST TOWN

Cheshire, eh? Fancy!

Hempsall pays his own way for once and therefore has no reason to declare it in the Chimp register of interests.

Of Pork Scratchings and Ricky Martin

Hempsall has gone the way of all critics: grown corrupt and flabby on the largesse of Manchester’s overly-generous restaurateurs.Shit, sack that sub, that’s next month – here he visits another pub

We're tavern a laugh

A chastened Hempsall advances some whys and wherefores re: the plight of the pub

Punch Drunk

This month we insisted on some ‘skillz’ with our free food. Hempsall and Red or Dead first reported for duty at the Midland for a scene straight out of “Goodfellas”...
Aggression can be productive. That might be controversial in these warm and cuddly, woe-betide-you days and in some quarters, but let’s clear the air.