Category Archives: Drinking

Losing the battle already

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I know I shouldn’t extrapolate from a few face book comments to tar an entire group with the same broad brush, but this recent post to the CAMRA group on face book convinces me that some people really aren’t paying attention. In fact they’re obviously paid so little attention that the battle to save booze from the same fate as has so far befell smoking has probably been lost already. How after all the bans we’ve already seen can anyone still ask “IS this advertising ban going too far” rather than “how do we stop this lunacy dead in it’s … Continue reading →

Ban that sort of thing

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I keep trying to find time to write an article about the latest moves from the new puritans and their ongoing attempts to ban anything they consider immoral, or that any of the rest of us consider fun. The problem is the proposals, white papers briefings and everything else are coming in such a torrent that I can’t keep up. Thankfully there are the likes of Dick Puddlecote and LegIron who do a much better job. Despite that I’m going to try and do a bit of a round up just so I know where we were a week or … Continue reading →

Back on the booze

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Well to be fair I’ve not been off the booze, but I am I’m afraid going to go on about the increasing anti-drink agenda. I begin to sympathise with stuck records the world over. They are as Leg Iron has often observed using exactly the same tactics as they did with smoking. Camra and the pub trade are once more, as again LegIron observed, putting up no resistance but just hoping they’ll somehow be spared. The puritans are so blatant and unimaginative in their tactics that even the mainstream media is starting to pick up on it. But then again … Continue reading →