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Dehumanising demonstrated

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Many other bloggers who I may have linked to once or twice in the past have commented before on the denormalisation of smoking, and the dehumanisation of one’s enemies is a tried and tested technique. So it was quite fascinating to watch a very blatant example of such a thing on BBC4 tonight in The Smoking years. Notionally a historical program the propaganda aspects weren’t even thinly veiled with smokers referred to as “creatures” and a separate species from early on and in the blurb on the BBC’s web site: “Timeshift reveals the story of the creature that is ‘the … Continue reading →

It may be beer is best

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Given our Glorious leaders recent warming up of an oft mooted idea to introduce Alchohol price fixing I thought I’d revisit a bunch of articles I’ve had sat open for months now, after of course first observing that such price fixing is verbotten by his masters in the EU as numerous bloggers have observed every time the idea is returned to. They’ll just have to resort to increasing tax (already about a third of the cost of a pint) and ever more dire warnings on bottles as they did for smokers. This re-use of the same tactics is something that … Continue reading →

No salt, no smokes, no booze, no…

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For a very long time many people have been pointing out that the prohibitionists are coming after everything they can now they’ve seen how well the tobacco ban is going. Well now apparently the smoking ban has been declared a success, so will they come after the next targets with more vigour? Well for those that haven’t noticed they already are: Having removed smoking in films they want drink free movies, Tighter drinking controls, increasing numbers of warnings on packaging, higher taxes Or a “new” one this time round rationing Those tried and tested methods used for smoking, and being … Continue reading →