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Government alcohol strategy consultation

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For those of you that aren’t following Drinkaury there’s a whole bunch of new posts up going through the entire government alcohol strategy consultation response form page by page. There’s just 6 days left to respond so do take some time to fill in the form even if just the first two sections on minimum pricing and multibuys. Though if you’ve got the time respond to the parts about reducing red-tape on business as well, or even better reply to the whole lot. +20

We shouldn’t accept the puritans frame of reference

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This post first appeared on Drinkuary I’ve changed the title, and am adding this slight introduction. By accepting the puritans idea that there are irresponsible drinkers who it’s ok to punish we’re handing them victory from the outset. They are already accusing the drinks industry of using the tactic of the tobacco industry – I fear that hey may be right, that the drinks industry hasn’t learnt anything from the Puritans attack on tobacco and will use the same tactics with the same results. They may slow it down, but once you accept that punishing “irresponsible” drinkers is ok, then … Continue reading →

Climate agreement

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I just came across this graphic published by NASA doing the rounds on FaceBook which as far as I can make out is meant to prove that scary man made climate change is real and all the scientists agree. At least that’s how it was presented. Now a couple of things struck me about this graph, the first of which is that the upward trend starts back in the 1900’s from this very short sample and the upward trend starts as far below the given 0 line as we’re now currently above it, which makes me wonder for this graphic … Continue reading →