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Friday 27 November 2009

	Chris Snowdon
	Our humourless, illiberal, curmudgeonly rulers From smoking bans to sin taxes, Brian Monteith finds that Scotland has proved itself a willing victim for the practices of the nanny state’s angrier successor: the bully state.

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