Pint-Sized, Yes, but Do Children and Pubs Mix..?

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The lager louts of the future may well be the lemonade louts of the present, writes Stephen McGinty

FOR children, there was a dark age when they were permitted to be seen, but not heard. Those days are gone, now, they are not only to be seen and heard but regularly bought a round in the pub.

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Pint-Sized, Yes, but Do Children and Pubs Mix..?

What was once a sacred space where men could sit in quiet contemplation, previously wreathed in cigarette smoke, while nursing a pint and a whisky, is, according to the Good Pub Guide, in danger of becoming a creche with optics.

In the past, the unsteadiest person in a public house was likely to be an unfortunate patron whose thirst that evening had been particularly fierce, but today it can be a toddler, or an eight-...

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