Pub chain bans swearing in its bars - are they right to call time on bad language?

Jul 04, 2017, 09:32 AM

It's over 10 years now since the law banning smoking in pubs across the UK was passed. A decade on - it looks like swearing - could be given its ticket too. It's been reported that the Samuel Smith's pub chain is calling time on foul language in its 300 establishments around GB. But how realistic is a ban on the use of foul language in a place where alcohol is sold? And would you welcome it? Vinny has been speaking to commentator Martin Daubney and journalist Lynette Burrows.