Who the hell is Jeffrey Bernard? I hear you shout. A fair question. Jeffrey Bernard was a columnist for the Spectator who died in 1997, and yes, he was a real person. He was a well-known alcoholic who spent the majority of his life in the coach of horses pub, an address he apparently once gave out as his own. Whilst trying to find out some information about him for this I found a fantastic tale of how he never owned a car and was too tight to pay for taxi. Instead, he would post himself a letter at the cost of 17p. When the post van came to deliver the letter he would scrounge a lift back into the village from the postman. On arrival to ...  Read the complete review