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Salami slicing a pint down the slippery slope

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This article was originally posted on Drinkuary.org I do apologise for mixing my metaphors (or possibly even my metafives, amongst friends who’s counting) and I would observe that my beer as you can see is wearing it’s finest tin foil hat (There are bonus points if you can identify what I’m drinking behind the fantastic photo editing*). However I would like to suggest an idea which may well be deserving of a tin foil hat, though I suspect those that have looked at how tobacco control has gone won’t think so. Currently there is much rejoicing in the land as … Continue reading →

Leveson calls for more pointless legislation

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There’s been an awful lot written about the Leveson report, and I’m sure you’ve already read a fair chunk of it, so I don’t intend to say that much. The pointlessness of the whole investigation was summed up for me by this tweet from “The bard: The Bard (@TwitTwotBard): “Can anybody name one press wrongdoing identified by Leveson that wasn’t covered by existing laws? A law to say the press must obey the law?” As far as I’ve been able to determine, there’s not a thing the press are in trouble for that wasn’t already covered by existing laws. So … Continue reading →

The endarkenment

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With the dumbing down of education and politics and the rise of the new priests of the green god, the god of offense and the god of “health” – who have all demanded that the scientific method, facts and truth be perverted and sacrificed upon their altars the endarkenment is surely upon us. What is the endarkenment I imagine I hear you cry, why I shall tell you, it’s the undoing of the progress we’ve made since the enlightenment, the slow dimming and putting out of the lights of scientific rigor, debate and truth. What value truth if it offends, … Continue reading →