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This is not equality

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Now that Drinkaury is over – though of course the fight against the puritans go on, it seems I missed all sorts of other things. This means I’m afraid that I’ll be doing a few catch up posts on the bits of news which didn’t entirely escape my attention. One of those things I’m afraid was this whole “gay marriage” thing. As you may have suspected I’ve a couple of problems with this legislation. The first of which is why are they even bothering with this at the moment, as last I checked: it wasn’t in anyone’s manifesto, it wasn’t … Continue reading →

How’s that legislation working out?

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This article was first posted on Drinkuary One interesting thing about the proposed legislation both minimum pricing and the bans on multi-buys is it’s all been tried before so we can look at other countries to get a rough idea of how well it’s gone. Starting really close to home over in Scotland it seems that banning multi-buys isn’t working terribly well. A year in retailers have largely responded by stopping selling single packs, so no more buying a single can of beer now you have to buy a 4+ pack. Sid Ali of Nisa Mintlaw, Aberdeenshire, said: “We took … Continue reading →

Modern justice or something

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I’m not going to link to anyone’s blog just for a change, but I’m really quite astonished by some of the things that have been said in blogs I tend to frequent. Most of the blogs I read seem to generally be in favour of justice, against mob rule and generally believe in the old fashioned idea that someone is innocent until proven guilty – or at least I thought they did. Following the recent allegations about the late James Saville even before any sort of investigation has taken place an awful lot of people seem to be of the … Continue reading →