Booze
Banning ads is mad and bad
Keir Starmer is embracing Sunakian petty prohibitionism
The blind ideology of public health
Minimum pricing has failed, so why is it still promoted?
How bad is the news on booze?
And how bad are the ideas for curbing consumption?
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