Saturday, 27 December 2014

The iron fist of public health

On the front page of The Observer, Dr Cliff Mann strips the public health mentality down to its bare bones.

"If more people knew that if they got drunk they were going to be arrested, they wouldn’t drink in the first place"

They are a charming bunch, aren't they? Always confusing what would happen with what should happen.

The rest of the article is a who's who of the modern temperance movement pleading for minimum pricing. Typical Observer agitprop, in other words.