Tube strikes driving you to drink? Good luck finding a pub that's still open

It’s not just frazzled commuters who’re suffering during the tube strike. London’s pubs – already under intolerable pressure from crushing business rates and burdensome and costly regulations – are taking another hit, says Emma McClarkin

Listening to the radio this morning pushed home the far-reaching impact of the tube strike . We heard about a mother’s two-and-a-half-hour ordeal to get her son to school, workers walking miles to the office after five failed attempts to board a bus, and a manager, after months of planning a corporate event, being forced to cancel because no one could get to the venue.

It’s not just frazzled commuters who suffer. London’s pubs – already under intolerable pressure from crushing business rates and burdensome and costly regulations – are taking another hi