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 [...]