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Diary
Archive December 10, 2024
No
beef, but….
Diary
Archive November
25, 2024
Folk
devils and nitrous oxide
Diary
Archive November
6, 2024
The
joy of loitering
Diary
Archive October
15, 2024
The
return to the local
Diary
Archive
September 24, 2024
Larry
Nelson and the challenge of trade journalism
Diary
Archive
September
10, 2024
What
we'll be losing if pubs disappear
Diary
Archive December
5, 2022
A
novel approach: writing the dilemmas of drink
Diary
Archive
December 3, 2020
Covid
Temperance: between the Wars
Diary
Archive January
6, 2020
The
‘new sobriety’ and its antinomies
Diary
Archive
August
29th, 2018
Risking
the credibility of safe drinking messages
Diary Archive
December 14, 2017
Avatars
of Aloysius: the Tiny Rebel bear affair
Diary
Archive April
27, 2017
Drink
and the meaning of cancer
Diary
Archive March
11, 2015
While
public health fiddles, alcohol harm inequality widens
Diary
Archive January
06, 2015
Prizes
and cabbages: the pub industry and the MRO
Diary
Archive May
28, 2014
The
strength of the drinks industry's alcohol pledge
Diary
Archive March
24, 2014
After the
Budget: the forward march of temperance halted?
Diary
Archive March 03, 2014
The
decline of alcohol
Diary
Archive February
07, 2013
Drinking,
smoking and inequality: the public health dilemma
Diary
Archive
December 10,
2013
Trouble at the till: under-age drinking and proxy purchasing
Dairy
Archive
November 13,
2013
Why
bringing on a sub won't change the drinking game
Diary
Archive October
29, 2013
The
enemy within? War and drink
Diary
Archive September
09, 2013
No
quick fix and no social justice in CSJ plan for alcohol and drugs
Diary
Archive August
07, 2013
Alcopops:
the demon drinks
Diary
Archive June
27, 2013
E-cigarettes:
the politics of vaping
Diary
Archive May
23, 2013
Big
pharma and alcohol research
Diary
Archive May
16, 2013
Thatcher’s
alcohol legacy
Part 2: The New Public
Health
Diary
Archive May
02, 2013
The
drinks industry and alcohol policy: why all the fuss?
Diary
Archive April
15, 2013
Thatcher’s
alcohol legacy Part 1:
The Beer Orders
Diary
Archive March
07, 3013
Having
your pint and drinking it too? The ‘problem’
of falling alcohol consumption
Diary
Archive February
20, 2013
Getting
drunk with Kettil Bruun
Diary
Archive February 05, 2012
Alcohol
stats and the comorbidity conundrum
Diary
Archive December 12, 2012
Blaming
the parents for ‘binge drinking’
Diary Archive
November
30, 2012
How
minimum pricing might increase alcohol consumption
Diary
Archive November
20, 2012
Alcohol
Concern’s hangover stats give me a headache
Diary
Archive November
5, 2012
Scientific
veil slips from the face of medical temperance
Diary
Archive October 24, 2012
The
science and politics of costing alcohol harm
Diary
Archive October 15, 2012
Drugs,
alcohol and the treatment deficit
Diary
Archive September
17, 2012
On
Griffith Edwards
Diary
Archive
September 04, 2012
Minimum
pricing and a divided drinks industry
Diary
Archive June
28, 2012
Alcohol
anxiety and the Scottish Effect
Diary
Archive May 23, 2012
Drink,
death and damned press agencies
Diary
Archive May
9, 2012
An
absurd objective – public health and the licensee
Diary
Archive
April 24, 2012
Widdecombe,
Bench Girl and the fear of the hoyden
Diary
Archive April
13, 2012
Undeserving
drinkers: moralism and the alcohol strategy
Diary
Archive March
22, 2012
Minimum
pricing: how an alcohol policy is made
Diary
Archive March
13, 2012
Decline
in alcohol consumption reaches epidemic proportions
Diary
Archive February
16, 2012
Binge
Britain – Cameron sends in the tanks
Diary
Archive January
30, 2012
All
change for the mismeasure of drink?
Diary
Archive December
16, 2011
Pricing
us out of an alcohol problem?
Diary
Archive November
21, 2011
Drinking
stories: how BUPA spun a tale of boozed-up Britain
Diary
Archive October 17, 2011
Laurel
and Hardy, the demon drink and the social anthropologist
Diary
Archive October
06, 2011
We
need a Fresher look at student drinking
Diary Archive
September
06, 2011
Off
licences: our common enemy?
Diary
Archive July
26, 2011
The
pub on the Left. Part two: Beyond the undeserving poor
Diary
Archive July
06, 2011
The
4% solution: drinkers demand less bang for their buck
Diary
Archive June
14, 2011
Public
services not pub libraries
Diary
Archive June
01, 2011
The
ups and downs of alcohol stats
Diary
Archive May
25, 2011
The
pub on the Left. Part one: the burden of government
Diary
Archive May
9, 2011
Keeping
the binge drinking myth alive
Diary
Archive April
25, 2011
Drunks,
junkies and fatsos: the return of the
undeserving poor
Diary
Archive April
14, 2011
Alcohol
and cancer: a marriage of convenience?
Diary
Archive March
25, 2011
From
crisis to renewal: hopes for the history of the pub
Diary
Archive March
15, 2011
The
anti-alcohol lobby and the responsibility deal
Diary
Archive February 23, 2011
The
rich get drunker and the poor get sicker
Diary
Archive February
15, 2011
A
cause for Concern: desperately seeking better
alcohol services
Diary
Archive
February
4, 2011
God
and the demon drink
Diary
Archive January
20, 2011
Vampires,
victims and minimum pricing
Diary
Archive January
18, 2011
Drinking
to our health? Of course not
Diary
Archive December
24, 2010
Cheap
booze, cheap lives
Diary
Archive December 3, 2010
Café
culture and the government assault on progress
Diary
Archive November
29, 2010
High
society. It’s only human
Diary
Archive November
03, 2010
The
Nutt report: exaggeration, not evidence
Diary
Archive November
01, 2010
Class,
binge drinking and the licensing review
Diary
Archive October
19, 2010
Disgusting
drinks: From the not-so-super to bad Buckie
Diary
Archive October
14, 2010
The
horrible consistency of ConDem alcohol policy
Diary
Archive September 28, 2010
Trades
unions and the pub
Diary
Archive September
10, 2010
A special
brew: consumer profiling the average tramp
Diary
Archive August 23, 2010
Drugs
in pubs: dodgy dealings and dodgy policies
Diary
Archive August 10 2010
Myths of the
individual and the nanny state
Diary
Archive July
29, 2010
Rebalancing
the licensing laws – an attack on progress
Diary
Archive July
20, 2010
Pubs
and the Big Society
Diary
Archive July 12, 2010
Alcohol
Concern: a dependency on problem inflation
Diary
Archive
June 28, 2010
Drink-driving:
Is policy steering the evidence?
Diary
Archive June 15, 2010
The
politics of lunch
Diary
Archive May
28, 2010
The
Ragged Trousered Piss-Artists?
Diary
Archive May
18, 2010
A
taxing time for beer drinkers
Diary
Archive May
10, 2010
Forgotten
and forgetting: deprivation and drinking
Diary
Archive May
6, 2010
Nationalise
pubs? Well, why not
Diary
Archive April
29, 2010
Sofa, so good:
the pub and the alcoholic
Diary
Archive April
21, 2010
Politics,
science, drugs and alcohol
Diary
Archive April
13, 2010
The
threat to pub WiFi
Diary
Archive March
29, 2010
Experiments
in alcohol and the tale of Rat Park
Diary
Archive March 25, 2010
Budgets,
Beer Fairies and a sprinkle of stardust
Diary
Archive March
22, 2010
The
Healey Plan: a licence for tie-slashing
Diary
Archive March 16, 2010
Social
norms: an alternative to 'health terrorism'?
Diary
Archive March
9, 2010
Alcohol
is a drug: deal with it
Diary
Archive March
4, 2010
The
Fifth Element: public houses and public health
Diary
Archive February
24, 2010
The
Politics of Recovery
Diary
Archive February
17, 2010
Does
minimum pricing work? A doctor wriggles
out of it
Diary
Archive February
12, 2010
Alcohol-related
disorder is falling. Not that anyone’s
going to tell you
Diary
Archive February 8,
2010
Fear
and loafing can ruin your health
Diary
Archive February 2,
2010
It’s
poverty, stupid – why people are dying of drink
Diary
Archive January
27, 2010
A
Dark Star shining
Diary
Archive January
22, 2010
Dr
Jekyll, Mr Hyde and the price of ale
Diary
Archive January
19, 2010
Playing
politics with the dentist’s chair
Don’t bounce out top-up training for doorstaff
Diary
Archive January
14, 2010
Drinking by
numbers? It doesn’t add up
Diary
Archive January
11, 2010
Never
mind the health select committee report on alcohol. Let’s… Play…
Darts!
Diary
Archive January
4, 2010
Forces
gather against the evils of drink
Doctors on the offensive
Diary
Archive December 21, 2009
The
drink questions (quiz)
Diary
Archive December 17, 2009
The
Beer Orders and me
Diary
Archive December 15, 2009
Britain
goes off the booze, shock!
Diary
Archive December 14, 2009
Is
it a beer? Is it a penguin? No, it seems to be a whisky
Diary
Archive December 9, 2009
Fair
to tenants? You’re having a Luff!
Diary
Archive December 7,
2009
Barring
pubs from alcohol debate - it's socially irresponsible
Diary
Archive
November 30, 2009
The invention
of binge drinkers
Diary
Archive November 24, 2009
Why
people drink at home – and why they should be
down the pub
Diary
Archive November
18, 2009
Too
many pubs?
Diary
Archive November
11, 2009
Beer
mats or helicopters? The drinks industry’s dilemma
Artificial alcohol: a dangerous invention
Phil's
Diary November 9, 2009
The
Nutt-Brown-ale conjunction
Ruff
justice
Phil's
Diary November 4, 2009
The
art of bartending
Phil's
Diary November 2, 2009
Nutt
sacking: a step backwards for drug and alcohol policy
Phil's
Diary October 27, 2009
Can
publicans unite?
Born to be mild
Phil's
Diary October 22, 2009
A
decision that’s a bit OFT
The
banker and the binge drinker
Phil's
Diary October 20, 2009
The
ups and downs of alcohol consumption
Phil's
Diary October
15, 2009
The
end of the tie?
Phil;s
Diary October 12, 2009
Did
boffins once have teenage kicks?
Phil's
Diary October
7, 2009
Tories out on
licensing
Death and
pensions
Phil's
Diary September
29, 2009
Curfew
spells chaos
The
third way
What's
the Scots' problem?
Phil's
Diary September
27, 2009
Putting the
tied-house in order
Phil's
Diary September
21, 2009
Charge
of the fright brigade
Biofuels
or beer? The big question
Phil's
Diary September
16, 2009
Down-under
the influence
Wethering the storm
Phil's
Diary September
14, 2009
Turning
back the clock
Phil's
Diary September
4, 2009
The
Price of Minimum Pricing
To
your stealth!
Phil's
Diary September
1, 2009
Scottish
Play
Drugs legalised. Sky stays up
Phil's
Diary August
25, 2009
Good
health! Or is it?
Heart of glass
Phil's
Diary
August
20, 2009
A
light (ale) at the end of the tunnel
Homeless,
not hopeless
Phil's
Diary August
17, 2009
Dubious
penalties
Sick
note
Phil's
Diary August10,
2009
In
the Doghouse
A
Victory for taste
Phil's
Diary July
30,
2009
Inebriety
makes a comeback
The
prohibition paradox
Phil's
Diary July
27,
2009
What’s
happening to our pubs?
The
point of a beer festival
Phil's
Diary July
22,
2009
How to die
of drink
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