At the end of this week, on Friday 20th March, Tim Martin will deliver to the market the Interim Results for his £677m-capitalised J D Wetherspoon (LON:JDW) pubs and hotels group.
It almost does not matter whether it will be good or bad news, of one thing you can be assured – it will certainly create a mass of column inches in the financial media.
As an example of Tim’s media attention, when commenting upon surging oil prices, he was quoted over the weekend as saying:
“Rising energy costs are bad news for pubs.  ...

