Traditional pubs are closing because men now *choose* to spend time with their wives, a devastating blow to an industry built on marital misery. Apparently, wives are no longer the rolling-pin-wielding harridans men fled to pubs to escape, which is frankly inconvenient.

DRINKING establishments are shuttering because men no longer mind being at home with their spouses, it has emerged. <p><strong>DRINKING establishments are shuttering because men no longer mind being at home with their spouses, it has emerged.</strong></p> <p>For decades pubs were a valuable refuge for the married and miserable, but modern men no longer feel that evenings at home with their life partner are a fate to be avoided at all costs.</p> <p>Publican Stephen Malley says: “People think that...