Monthly Archives: October 2010

The smoking ban has always struck me as an act of cultural vandalism, and part of a war on traditional British culture by people who, even if they have been elected as MPs, hate that culture. The global warming scare … Continue reading →

A comment by Rose earlier today set me thinking: Smoking pill link to 35 deaths "GlaxoSmithKline, the world’s second largest drug company, conceded yesterday that the anti-smoking drug Zyban was suspected of causing adverse reactions in 35 people who have … Continue reading →

I read a month or so back that the UN were going to a appoint someone to meet aliens from outer space. WHEN aliens arrive on Earth, they will no longer have to worry about who will greet them. The … Continue reading →

In the comments yesterday, Dick Puddlecote posted a link to a brief clip of a video interview of Nick Clegg from earlier in 2010. I’d not seen it before, and found it very interesting. The more I listened to it, … Continue reading →

Poor old Nick Clegg. Everybody is kicking him for saying he smokes, and for asking for "a stash of cigarettes" to take to his desert island. (H/T to TBY, you can hear his recording of Desert Island Discs here) The antismoking … Continue reading →

In his Open Letter to Vince Cable in the New Statesman, Peter Kellner makes a number of claims which defy common sense. He says the tobacco display ban won’t hurt small retailers, when it quite obviously will, and the retailers have … Continue reading →

While I’ve been tinkering around with statistics and scatter diagrams and so forth, I’ve been thinking about something Leg-iron wrote a few days back: I have seen the future and it’s smoky-drinky. He said: I like pubs. I really like to spend … Continue reading →