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By the way, a few people have kindly thrown some money in the kitty. You don't need to. This Substack is completely free. But it's appreciated. I would email you personally but I can't work out how to do it, so am leaving a note here!

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Sadly the same public health panic approach will be applied to fat people’s consumption of mars bars and burgers and to the other bete noire of the control freak puritans gambling. Yet as Chris shows when you challenge this policy led evidence it melts like a magnum ice cream in a volcano.

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So we can now look forward to the repeal of minimum pricing in Scotland? No, thought not.

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I do find it weird that the so-called "progressive" stance on MUP is perversely more market-fundamentalist even than the IEA, somehow, embracing the logic of prices and consumption even in one of the very few circumstances (chemical addiction) where it doesn't apply.

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Fucking amazing.

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