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Tim Black
The UK’s evidence-
based drugs problem
The political class’ addiction to evidence and experts has come back to befuddle it on the terrain of drugs legislation.
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| Tuesday 9 October 2012 |
Tim Black
Why the booze panic is still staggering on
Officialdom is determined to ‘denormalise’ what the majority of us deem to be perfectly normal: enjoying a few drinks at the end of the day.
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| Wednesday 29 August 2012 |
Rob Lyons
The trouble with dope: it rots the soul
Never mind scientific studies into the alleged harms of cannabis - how about making a moral case against dope?
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| Thursday 19 July 2012 |
Tom Bailey
Drinking alcohol? That’s not normal!
Attempts by anti-drinking killjoys to ‘denormalise’ an everyday activity are getting ever more patronising.
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| Monday 26 March 2012 |
Patrick Hayes
Minimum pricing means minimising choice
Ramping up the price of booze won't change drinking habits, but it will squeeze just a little more freedom out of life.
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| Wednesday 8 February 2012 |
Timandra Harkness
A sober reflection on ‘dangerous drinking’
You’d have to be completely hammered to take seriously the government’s latest bizarre claims about booze.
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| Wednesday 1 February 2012 |
Luke Gittos
Don’t replace the drug laws with therapy laws
Campaigners who claim they want to liberalise the drug laws are in fact demanding more state control over drug-users.
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| Tuesday 3 January 2012 |
Rob Lyons
Welcome to the Nagging Health Service
Some health fanatics want everyone from GPs to hospital porters to lecture to us about our lifestyles.
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| Thursday 10 November 2011 |
Dr Michael Fitzpatrick
Our society is hooked on harm reduction
We should approach the use and abuse of alcohol and drugs as a moral question, not as a clinical or legal matter.
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| Tuesday 2 August 2011 |
Rob Lyons
Panorama’s addiction to pisspoor journalism
Last night’s edition of the BBC’s current-affairs show was a one-sided showcase for the anti-alcohol lobby.
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| Thursday 7 July 2011 |
Max Klinger
The BMA: modern-day prohibitionists
The British Medical Association is dressing up moralistic attacks on smoking and drinking as health policy.
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| Thursday 16 June 2011 |
Ellie Lee
FAS: the gestation of a dubious idea
It is moralism, not evidence, that underpins the advice that pregnant women should abstain from alcohol.
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| Monday 7 March 2011 |
Tim Black
Turning drinkers into social lepers
A Coalition of the Concerned is determined that those who enjoy a drink should join smokers as modern outcasts.
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| Wednesday 1 December 2010 |
Tim Black
Resist this nudge towards sobriety
The UK government’s decision to raise duty on high-strength lager in order to change our behaviour diminishes us all.
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| Monday 15 November 2010 |
Dr Michael Fitzpatrick
A futile intervention into our drinking habits
Just because excessive alcohol consumption can have medical consequences, that doesn't make it a Medical Problem.
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| Tuesday 2 November 2010 |
Rob Lyons
Oh no, Nutt again!
A year after being sacked as a government drugs adviser, David Nutt is back to warn of the evils of the demon drink.
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| Tuesday 19 October 2010 |
Nathalie Rothschild
The British elite prefers polite Malthusianism
The American woman paying British drug addicts to stop breeding is only saying out loud what respectable people normally say in code.
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| Monday 11 October 2010 |
Anna Travis
Save us all from ‘alcohol awareness’
Save Dave, the latest government anti-drinking campaign, imagines the British everyman as a drunk simpleton.
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| Tuesday 14 September 2010 |
Austin Post
My name is Austin, I hate underage drinking laws
A 20-year-old American student warns Britain not to adopt America’s puritanical and invasive alcohol policies.
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| Monday 6 September 2010 |
Josie Appleton
A licence to interfere in our everyday lives
The Lib-Cons’ proposed reforms to the licensing laws would make them even more authoritarian and killjoy than they already are - no mean feat.
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