We're Awash in Booze, so Why Won't Blunkett Call Last Orders?
Mail on Sunday › March 22, 2004
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IF NOBODY restrains us, we will drink ourselves to destruction.
Apart from the Russians and Scandinavians, I know of no people so dedicated as the British to stupefying themselves with alcohol.See the full content of this document
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We're Awash in Booze, so Why Won't Blunkett Call Last Orders?
Hogarth's biting depiction of Gin Lane and Cruickshank's great anti-alcohol paintings are there to remind us of the hoggish, violent and self-destructive state we get into when we can, and the trail of wreckage we leave - in beaten women, broken marriages, neglected children and destroyed live...
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