Friday, 17 January 2025

Hoping for a genuine drug policy debate worth winning

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This week there has been lots of media coverage of the opening of The Thistle - the UK's first official drug consumption room.  Some of ...
Wednesday, 14 April 2021

Alcohol labelling and rationality

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The Sun reported yesterday that public health ‘nannies’ are planning on introducing calorie labelling on alcoholics drinks, including in pub...
Tuesday, 16 March 2021

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Generation Sensible

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This morning I was doing the lecture I do once a year to keep my position as a ‘visiting fellow’ at Bournemouth University.  This year, I ha...
Wednesday, 11 November 2020

Alcohol isn't like sushi

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I’m off work for a few days this week, so while I’ve been catching up on jobs around the house I’ve also been catching up on my podcast list...
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Thursday, 17 September 2020

Fear or Compassion - what's the way to change policy?

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I’ve been thinking a lot about the politics of drug and alcohol treatment recently.  Obviously this is something that’s on my mind in a cert...
Monday, 20 July 2020

Is it always best to think local?

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I’m quite a fan of the New Local Government Network (NLGN).  Their starting point is that government in the UK could be more efficient and ...
Thursday, 9 July 2020

The rise and fall (and rise and fall) of neoliberalism in alcohol policy?

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Between 2006 and 2009, I was doing research into alcohol and the night-time economy.   This still felt like a time of ‘ peak booze ’.   Th...
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