I have heard about this before and expect our deeply caring government to introduce it here before too long.
Ever wondered how many calories are in your food when you dine out?
No. Never.
Or in the snack you’ve just chosen in a vending machine? Or indeed your early morning latte?
Now you’re getting silly.
Well whether you have or [...]

Leg-iron observes that Godwin’s Law needs to be updated. Whether discussing the smoking ban or the many other authoritarian measures which are now in place, it is difficult to avoid the obvious similarities with Nazism.
And as in 1930’s Germany, there are millions of people in the UK today who are happy the way freedoms are [...]

I don’t normally write about smoking, but things have become so unbelievably crazy that I’m going to start. Scottish Labour welcomes:
an initiative by the UK Government to halve the number of people smoking by 2010. The strategy includes a crackdown on cigarette smoking.
A crackdown?! You mean a total ban in all enclosed public places is [...]

Things have to change in 2010. I said the same about 2009 and 2008… but I mean it this time. One of my biggest problems is that I waste far too much time on the internet, so I propose the following:
1) Stop following people on Twitter who are of no interest. For example, I follow [...]

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, here’s a New Labour suggestion for the introduction of “entitlement cards” to enable us to purchase alcohol and tobacco – and have our purchases “recorded”. All to help tackle problem drinkers. The idea is from a fellow Cowan. John Cowan is Labour’s Parliamentary candidate in South [...]

I’ve just read this article in the Scotsman: Scotland’s alcohol problem: ‘I drink to get out my face and fall asleep’. It paints a very bleak picture of life in Shettleston in Glasgow’s East End.
BEHIND the third barstool at the Portland Arms in Shettleston, a small brass plaque is fixed to the bar. “Davie Gerthy’s [...]