The Guardian rather overstates the case on the smoking ban. Parliament, so often maligned and so often ignorantly, has done itself and the nation proud by banning smoking in England. “Banning smoking in England”? Smoking won’t become illegal everywhere in England. Just in public. Which puts it, I suppose, about on a par with masturbation.… Continue reading Overstating the Case
Day: 15 February 2006
Smoking and Drinking
People who own pubs often complain that a ban on smoking like the one that was passed last night will have a detrimental effect on their business. They say that smoking and drinking are inextricably linked and that if people can’t smoke in pubs then they won’t drink there either. I don’t think that’s true.… Continue reading Smoking and Drinking
Time Flies
Is it really three years since a million people took to the streets of London trying to prevent the Iraq war. Credit where it’s due – this is what reminded me.